Android: how to convert whole ImageView to Bitmap?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4715044/android-how-to-convert-whole-imageview-to-bitmap

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BitmapDrawable drawable = (BitmapDrawable) imageView.getDrawable();Bitmap bitmap = drawable.getBitmap()

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You could just use the imageView's image cache. It will render the entire view as it is layed out (scaled,bordered with a background etc) to a new bitmap.
just make sure it built.
imageView.buildDrawingCache();Bitmap bmap = imageView.getDrawingCache();