Saving an edittext to bitmap

Question

I am saving my layout to a bitmap, which contains an ImageView and an EditText.

I am using this code:

public void saveToImage(RelativeLayout content){

    Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(content.getWidth(), content.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

    Canvas c = new Canvas(bitmap);
    content.layout(0, 0, content.getLayoutParams().width, content.getLayoutParams().height);
    content.draw(c);


    try{
        File file,f = null;                    
        if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) 
            {  
                 file =new File(android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"TTImages_cache");
                 if(!file.exists())
                {
                  file.mkdirs();

                 } 
                 f = new File(file.getAbsolutePath()+file.separator+ "filename"+".png");
            }
          FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream(f);                                   
          bitmap.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 10, ostream);
          ostream.close();

         } 


         catch (Exception e){
         e.printStackTrace();
        }
}

However the image I save looks like this:

I would like to remove the underlined text and the text cursor in the edittext when saving the bitmap. Is that possible?

Answer 1

To remove the blinking cursor before saving the bitmap you can do

editText.setCursorVisible(false);

And then set it back to true again afterwards.

Answer 2

You just need to remove both underline and cursor when you start capturing the layout. You can remove the underline by:

yourEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);

and the cursor by:

yourEditText.setCursorVisible(false);

It would be better if you disable the cursor inside your saveToImage method by:

public void saveToImage(RelativeLayout content){
    yourEditText.setCursorVisible(false);
       ....
       ....
    //your code for saving the layout
}

and then after the layout is saved in the memory, just reset the yourEditText to show the cursor.

public void saveToImage(RelativeLayout content){
    //your code for saving the layout
       ....
       ....
    yourEditText.setCursorVisible(true);
}