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Daniel Mendel
Daniel Mendel

Reputation: 506

Android: change the color of a bitmap

let's say i have this bitmap, which is a random shape painted all black, and say i want to be bale to change it color, does my bitmap have to be all painted white first or is there something else to it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4348

Answers (1)

redorav
redorav

Reputation: 962

If you're using Canvas the way to alter the bitmap's color is to alter the bitmap itself. The steps involved are as follows:

Say you want to load an existing Bitmap you have somewhere and you want to tint it red somehow.

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.bitmap);

After that you want to modify the bitmap's pixels before you paint it onto the Canvas. You create an int array that will holds all your pixels.

int[] pixels;
bitmap.getPixels(pixels, 0, 0, 0, 0, width, height);

After that you need to modify the array (say, adding to the red component). However, right now all we have is int values inside a pixel array. R,G and B are all packed inside. How to retrieve them?

int red = Color.red(pixels[n]);
int green = Color.green(pixels[n]);
int blue= Color.blue(pixels[n]);

Then you modify the pixel's value by whatever you want, you could put it in a loop or however you like, and then put it back to the pixels array. Also, RGB values go from 0-255 because they are 8-bit values.

Right after that you would put them back using exactly the opposite function.

bitmap.setPixels(pixels, 0, 0, 0, 0, width, height);

And then you're ready to go calling Canvas.drawBitmap();

Keep in mind that this process ought to be slow if you do it frequently, besides Canvas is a slow way of doing thing's if you're interested in real-time apps such as games.

Hope it helped!

Upvotes: 4

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