Converting Views to Bitmap Images in Android

When working with applications, developers can sometimes run in to a situation where they would like to create a view and then convert it to a Bitmap to work with it as an image. Learn how in this easy to follow guide.

In some applications, we would like to create a View with texts, images, and more view-elements and convert it to a Bitmap. Why? Well, you don't know until you need it, but imagine that you are working with OpenGL, you want to add textures to a OpenGL object, and you want these textures view-like. This is just an example, but I'm positive that more functionality will come to your mind while you are developing in Android.

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