Scaled Bitmap maintaining aspect ratio

Question

I would like to scale a Bitmap to a runtime dependant width and height, where the aspect ratio is maintained and the Bitmap fills the entire width and centers the image vertically, either cropping the excess or filling in the gap with 0 alpha pixels.

I'm currently redrawing the bitmap myself by creating a Bitmap of all 0 alpha pixels and drawing the image Bitmap on top of it, scaling to the exact specified width and maintaining the aspect ratio, however, it ends up losing/screwing up the pixel data.

Here is how I'm doing it:

Bitmap background = Bitmap.createBitmap((int)width, (int)height, Config.ARGB_8888);
float originalWidth = originalImage.getWidth(), originalHeight = originalImage.getHeight();
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(background);
float scale = width/originalWidth;
float xTranslation = 0.0f, yTranslation = (height - originalHeight * scale)/2.0f;
Matrix transformation = new Matrix();
transformation.postTranslate(xTranslation, yTranslation);
transformation.preScale(scale, scale);
canvas.drawBitmap(originalImage, transformation, null);
return background;

Is there a library out there or some better code that can do this better? I would like the image to look as crisp as possible, but I knew that my function wouldn't provide a great result.

I know I could have the image stay fine by using integer scaling, instead of float scaling, but I need the width to be 100% filled.

Also, I know about an ImageView's Gravity.CENTER_CROP capability, however, that also uses integer scaling, so it cuts off the width of the image when it shouldn't.

Answer 1

This will respect maxWidth and maxHeight, which means the resulting bitmap will never have dimensions larger then those:

 private static Bitmap resize(Bitmap image, int maxWidth, int maxHeight) {
    if (maxHeight > 0 && maxWidth > 0) {
        int width = image.getWidth();
        int height = image.getHeight();
        float ratioBitmap = (float) width / (float) height;
        float ratioMax = (float) maxWidth / (float) maxHeight;

        int finalWidth = maxWidth;
        int finalHeight = maxHeight;
        if (ratioMax > ratioBitmap) {
            finalWidth = (int) ((float)maxHeight * ratioBitmap);
        } else {
            finalHeight = (int) ((float)maxWidth / ratioBitmap);
        }
        image = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(image, finalWidth, finalHeight, true);
        return image;
    } else {
        return image;
    }
}