How to take a screenshot of the current MapView?
I have two buttons and a mapView. I want to save the MapView's view when I press one of the buttons.
Anyone got any idea about how I can do this?
You have to add a listener to the button (you should know how this done) and in that listener, do something like that:
boolean enabled = mMapView.isDrawingCacheEnabled();
mMapView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bm = mMapView.getDrawingCache();
/* now you've got the bitmap - go save it */
File path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
path = new File(path, "Pictures");
path.mkdirs(); // make sure the Pictures folder exists.
File file = new File(path, "filename.png");
BufferedOutputStream outStream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
boolean success = bm.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 100, outStream);
outStream.flush();
outStream.close();
mMapView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(enabled); // reset to original value
In order to have the image show up in the Gallery immediately, you have to notify the MediaScanner about the new image like so:
if (success) {
MediaScannerClientProxy client = new MediaScannerClientProxy(file.getAbsolutePath(), "image/png");
MediaScannerConnection msc = new MediaScannerConnection(this, client);
client.mConnection = msc;
msc.connect();
}
google map have a function to take a snapshot so use this here is example, it return a bitmap that you can set on a image view its simple..
Bitmap bitmapMapsattelite ;
map.setOnMapLoadedCallback(new GoogleMap.OnMapLoadedCallback() {
@Override
public void onMapLoaded() {
// Make a snapshot when map's done loading
map.snapshot(new GoogleMap.SnapshotReadyCallback() {
@Override
public void onSnapshotReady(Bitmap bitmap) {
bitmapMapsattelite = null;
/// make the bitmap null so everytime it //will fetch the new bitmap
bitmapMapsattelite = bitmap;
}
});
}
});