Android View.getDrawingCache returns null, only null

Bex picture Bex · Feb 26, 2010 · Viewed 71.3k times · Source

Would anyone please try to explain to me why

public void addView(View child) {
  child.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
  child.setWillNotCacheDrawing(false);
  child.setWillNotDraw(false);
  child.buildDrawingCache();
  if(child.getDrawingCache() == null) { //TODO Make this work!
    Log.w("View", "View child's drawing cache is null");
  }
  setImageBitmap(child.getDrawingCache()); //TODO MAKE THIS WORK!!!
}

ALWAYS logs that the drawing cache is null, and sets the bitmap to null?

Do I have to actually draw the view before the cache is set?

Thanks!

Answer

Marcio Covre picture Marcio Covre · Jan 6, 2011

I was having this problem also and found this answer:

v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);

// this is the important code :)  
// Without it the view will have a dimension of 0,0 and the bitmap will be null          
v.measure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED), 
            MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
v.layout(0, 0, v.getMeasuredWidth(), v.getMeasuredHeight()); 

v.buildDrawingCache(true);
Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getDrawingCache());
v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false); // clear drawing cache