How to convert a Bitmap to Drawable in android?

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How can I convert a Bitmap image to Drawable ?

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ViliusK · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-15 13:41:19Z

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Try this it converts a Bitmap type image to Drawable

Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

edited Apr 15, 2015 at 13:41

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answered Dec 30, 2010 at 7:04

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Yasin Kaçmaz · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-18 12:19:16Z

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Sounds like you want to use BitmapDrawable

From the documentation:

A Drawable that wraps a bitmap and can be tiled, stretched, or aligned. You can create a BitmapDrawable from a file path, an input stream, through XML inflation, or from a Bitmap object.

edited Jul 18, 2016 at 12:19

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answered Mar 10, 2010 at 11:17

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Camille Sévigny Over a year ago

@Deprecated Use BitmapDrawable(Resources, Bitmap) to ensure that the drawable has correctly set its target density.

ViliusK · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-15 13:42:10Z

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Having seen a large amount of issues with bitmaps incorrectly scaling when converted to a BitmapDrawable, the general way to convert should be:

Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

Without the Resources reference, the bitmap may not render properly, even when scaled correctly. There are numerous questions on here which would be solved simply by using this method rather than a straight call with only the bitmap argument.

edited Apr 15, 2015 at 13:42

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answered Jan 31, 2012 at 11:14

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Zulaxia Over a year ago

At least comment why if you're going to down vote. This is a perfectly valid answer, and brings extra information to solve issues that can occur with the other answers offered. Drawables made directly from a bitmap often have scaling errors without the getResources() reference.

Raykud Over a year ago

this is a more accurate answer considering the one from @Manoj is deprecated.

Sambhav Khandelwal Over a year ago

@Raykud, Manoj's answer and this answer show the same code. And, how it is deprecated? And, how is this accurate if that is deprecated and this too is deprecated(It in real is not deprecated)

Raykud Over a year ago

@Sambhav.K because original answer from Manoj was "Drawable d =new BitmapDrawable(bitmap);" but was edited years later.

Ziem · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-19 08:41:57Z

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Offical Bitmapdrawable documentation

This is sample on how to convert bitmap to drawable

Bitmap bitmap;  
//Convert bitmap to drawable
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);

edited Jan 19, 2016 at 8:41

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Abhi Over a year ago

sorry...i was not serious

CopsOnRoad Over a year ago

You could have upvoted instead of writing the same answer.

Samuel Seda · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 00:06:25Z

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I used with context

//Convert bitmap to drawable
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(context.getResources(), bitmap);

answered Oct 13, 2016 at 0:06

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CopsOnRoad Over a year ago

Duplicate answer.

Sanjayrajsinh · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-07 08:27:15Z

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1) bitmap to Drawable :

Drawable mDrawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
// mImageView.setDrawable(mDrawable);

2) drawable to Bitmap :

Bitmap mIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),R.drawable.icon_resource);
// mImageView.setImageBitmap(mIcon);

answered Nov 7, 2019 at 8:27

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Ziem · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-19 08:41:31Z

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If you have a bitmap image and you want to use it in drawable, like

Bitmap contact_pic;    //a picture to show in drawable
drawable = new BitmapDrawable(contact_pic);

edited Jan 19, 2016 at 8:41

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answered Nov 20, 2012 at 6:50

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schlingel Over a year ago

That's deprecated now. Use the BitmapDrawable(Resources, Bitmap) constructor now.

Pir Fahim Shah Over a year ago

@schlingel It still working fine and many of us are using it in our projects,

schlingel Over a year ago

That's good for you, but doesn't help when Google eventually kills this constructor and you have to rewrite everything.

Pir Fahim Shah Over a year ago

@schlingel yes, but still some one in rush use this and it make a work

Thiago · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-23 16:55:43Z

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Just do this:

private void setImg(ImageView mImageView, Bitmap bitmap) {

    Drawable mDrawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
    mImageView.setDrawable(mDrawable);
}

answered Jul 23, 2015 at 16:55

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IIRed-DeathII Over a year ago

Not the solution for what he is asking

Desolator · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-09 07:09:36Z

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here's another one:

Drawable drawable = RoundedBitmapDrawableFactory.create(context.getResources(), bitmap);

answered Apr 9, 2018 at 7:09

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fif.iva · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-10 16:27:25Z

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For Kotlin users:

Kotlin has a function for converting Bitmap to BitmapDrawable:

Bitmap.toDrawable(resources)

answered Feb 10, 2022 at 16:27

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amosu dona · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-11 13:55:36Z

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convert Bitmap To Drawable in Sketchware app using direct block

    android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable d = new android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);

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answered May 29, 2019 at 16:35

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