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Increase bitmap size without scaling image

I would like to increase the size of a Bitmap in my Android application.
It sounds like a very simple operation but I cannot find how to do so anywhere.
Here is an image to illustrate what I am trying to achieve here:
Basically, I'd like to create a new bitmap that has the same width as the original, but a bigger height. The background of the (new) extra pixels can be black, white or transparent.
How can I do this?

Some like this should do.
// Create a Canvas to draw to
Canvas bitmapCanvas = new Canvas();
// Create a Bitmap to back the Canvas of the new size
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(X, Z, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
bitmapCanvas.setBitmap(bitmap);
// Calculate the new position of bitmap
// Middle of new Z dimension minus half the original height to centre it.
int newY = (Z / 2) - (Y / 2);
// Draw original bitmap to new location
Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setAntiAlias(true);
bitmapCanvas.drawBitmap(origBitmap, 0, newY, paint);

How to add stroke/border to transparent png image in android?

I have transparent images like shapes,letters which I'm fetch from gallery so I need to give them stroke/outline with black color, I can set border but It's set to whole bitmap like left,right,top and bottom.
Same thing we can do with photoshop is giving outerstroke to image but I want to achieve that in android.
I tried this and this It's give border, But what I want to do is like below
sample image
Original Image
I want like this -->
Does this possible in android?

I have an temporary solution like this
int strokeWidth = 8;
Bitmap originalBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.flower_icon);
Bitmap newStrokedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(originalBitmap.getWidth() + 2 * strokeWidth, originalBitmap.getHeight() + 2 * strokeWidth, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(newStrokedBitmap);
float scaleX = newStrokedBitmap.getWidth() / originalBitmap.getWidth();
float scaleY = newStrokedBitmap.getHeight() / originalBitmap.getHeight();
Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.setScale(scaleX, scaleY);
canvas.drawBitmap(originalBitmap, matrix, null);
canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP); //Color.WHITE is stroke color
canvas.drawBitmap(originalBitmap, strokeWidth, strokeWidth, null);
Firstly create a new bitmap with stroke size on left, right, bottom and top.
Secondly a little bit scale bitmap and draw scaled bitmap on newly created bitmap canvas.
Draw a color (your stroke color) with PorterDuff mode SRC_ATOP override original bitmap position with stroke color.
Finally draw your original bitmap on newly create bitmap canvas.

How to create a grayscale image using java

can anyone help me and tell me how to create a gray scale image where one pixel of the image is shown as a square with the size 2 x 2?
I already searched for help and found this how to create a gray scale image from pixel values using java but i don't know how to create a gray scale with the information that one pixel is shown as a square with the size 2 x 2.
thanks!

to create a picture where each pixel has the size 2x2 you must either scale the image (factor 2) for display only... or if you want to create a image you have to do it manually and create an image and draw with scale factor 2 on it
int[] pixels = ... //we already have our gray scale pixels here
int widthOriginal = ... //size of original image
int heightOriginal = ...
//let's create an buffered Image twice the size
BufferedImage img =
new BufferedImage(2*widthOriginal, 2*heightOriginal, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR);
//we paint on the buffered image's graphic...
Graphics gr = img.getGraphics();
//we draw all pixels on the graphic
for(int y = 0; y < heightOriginal; y ++){
for(int x = 0; x < widthOriginal; x ++){
int index = y*widthOriginal + x;
int gray = pixels[index];
//to draw we first set the color
gr.setColor(new Color(gray));
//then draw the pixel
gr.drawRect(2*x, 2*y,2,2); //draw a 2x2 pixel instead of a 1x1 pixel
}
}
uhm - honestly i've written that code entirely out of my head, so there may be some minor compilation problems... but the technique is explained properly...

Android - use bitmap as a gradient mask

I have implemented a flood fill algorithm in an android app. The way I have implemented the algorithm doesn't actually change the source bitmap, but instead creates a new bitmap of the fill area. I.E.
Flood filling this circle with red
Would produce this bitmap (where everything else in the bitmap is transparent)
Which I then combine again into a single bitmap. This works great for solid colors, but I want to be able to implement a gradient flood fill so that if a user fills the same circle, choosing red and blue, the resulting bitmap would look like this
My question is, is there a way that I can use the red circle as some sort of mask to make the desired gradient? or do I have to write a gradient generator myself?

Thanks to pskink's hint, I was able to find an answer.
The idea is that you create a canvas, draw the mask to it, create the gradient that you want, then draw the gradient on top of it using the SRC_IN PorterDuffXfermode. Here's the code:
public Bitmap addGradient(Bitmap src, int color1, int color2)
{
int w = src.getWidth();
int h = src.getHeight();
Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(w,h, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
canvas.drawBitmap(src, 0, 0, null);
Paint paint = new Paint();
LinearGradient shader = new LinearGradient(0,0,0,h, color1, color2, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
paint.setShader(shader);
paint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN));
canvas.drawRect(0,0,w,h,paint);
return result;
}
In this instance, the DST(destination) is the red circle and the SRC(source) is the gradient. The SRC_IN PorterDuff mode means draw the SRC everywhere that it intersects with the DST.
Note that it really doesn't matter what color the mask is, because the PorterDuff mode only pays attention to whether the DST pixel is transparent or not. The color of the resulting bitmap will be a gradient between color1 and color2.

Android Bitmap: Convert transparent pixels to a color

I have an Android app that loads an image as a bitmap and displays it in an ImageView. The problem is that the image appears to have a transparent background; this causes some of the black text on the image to disappear against the black background.
If I set the ImageView background to white, that sort of works, but I get ugly big borders on the image where it is stretched to fit the parent (the actual image is scaled in the middle).
So - I want to convert the transparent pixels in the Bitmap to a solid colour - but I cannot figure out how to do it!
Any help would be appreciate!
Thanks
Chris

If you are including the image as a resource, it is easiest to just edit the image yourself in a program like gimp. You can add your background there, and be sure of what it is going to look like and don't have use to processing power modifying the image each time it is loaded.
If you do not have control over the image yourself, you can modify it by doing something like, assuming your Bitmap is called image.
Bitmap imageWithBG = Bitmap.createBitmap(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(),image.getConfig()); // Create another image the same size
imageWithBG.eraseColor(Color.WHITE); // set its background to white, or whatever color you want
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(imageWithBG); // create a canvas to draw on the new image
canvas.drawBitmap(image, 0f, 0f, null); // draw old image on the background
image.recycle(); // clear out old image

You can loop through each pixel and check if it is transparent.
Something like this. (Untested)
Bitmap b = ...;
for(int x = 0; x<b.getWidth(); x++){
for(int y = 0; y<b.getHeight(); y++){
if(b.getPixel(x, y) == Color.TRANSPARENT){
b.setPixel(x, y, Color.WHITE);
}
}
}