Take A Partial Screenshot on Android?

Question

I want to save off a Bitmap of the current screen for my users to share, but I only want to do a partial (I want to remove the areas that have user buttons and such).

I have found code on taking a full screenshot, but cannot figure out how to do this.

Hoping there is something easy that I am just missing.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Put the partial area of which the screenshot is to be taken in a ViewGRoup say RelativeLayout. Then when you launch the Activity just make sure to build the drawing cache as follows

relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);
        relativeLayout.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
        relativeLayout.buildDrawingCache();

And then when you actually want ot take the screenshot of that particular area, just get the Screenshot in the form of a Bitmap from the drawing cache

bitmap = relativeLayout.getDrawingCache();