Android's gradient drawables: poor quality of screenshots in Eclipse

Question

I\'m using drawables like the following one for backgrounds with a gradient:

Answer 1

Furthering my comment above, try something like this, I usually get pretty good quality from this, although haven't noticed what gradients look like. The DRAWING_CACHE_QUALITY_HIGH may help, not sure.

void getScreenCap(View yourView) {
    yourView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    yourView.setDrawingCacheQuality(LinearLayout.DRAWING_CACHE_QUALITY_HIGH);
    yourView.buildDrawingCache();
    Bitmap bmp = null;
    if (yourView != null) { 
        try {
            bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(yourView.getDrawingCache());
        } catch (NullPointerException e) { }
    }
    yourView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
    yourView.destroyDrawingCache();

    if (bmp != null) {
        String file_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/";
        File dir = new File(file_path);
        if (!dir.exists()) { 
            dir.mkdirs();
        }
        File file = new File(dir, "screencap.png");
        FileOutputStream fOut = null;
        try { fOut = new FileOutputStream(file); } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) { }
        bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 85, fOut);
        try { fOut.flush(); fOut.close(); } catch (IOException e1) { }
    }
}

I'm not sure if this will compile, but it has the stuff you would need to take a screen cap of your app.

Your AVD needs an SDCARD and in your manifest you also need: