Android Crop Center of Bitmap

While most of the above answers provide a way to do this, there is already a built-in way to accomplish this and it's 1 line of code (ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail())

int dimension = getSquareCropDimensionForBitmap(bitmap);
bitmap = ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(bitmap, dimension, dimension);

...

//I added this method because people keep asking how 
//to calculate the dimensions of the bitmap...see comments below
public int getSquareCropDimensionForBitmap(Bitmap bitmap)
{
    //use the smallest dimension of the image to crop to
    return Math.min(bitmap.getWidth(), bitmap.getHeight());
}

If you want the bitmap object to be recycled, you can pass options that make it so:

bitmap = ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(bitmap, dimension, dimension, ThumbnailUtils.OPTIONS_RECYCLE_INPUT);

From: ThumbnailUtils Documentation

public static Bitmap extractThumbnail (Bitmap source, int width, int height)

Added in API level 8 Creates a centered bitmap of the desired size.

Parameters source original bitmap source width targeted width height targeted height

I was getting out of memory errors sometimes when using the accepted answer, and using ThumbnailUtils resolved those issues for me. Plus, this is much cleaner and more reusable.


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This can be achieved with: Bitmap.createBitmap(source, x, y, width, height)

if (srcBmp.getWidth() >= srcBmp.getHeight()){

  dstBmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(
     srcBmp, 
     srcBmp.getWidth()/2 - srcBmp.getHeight()/2,
     0,
     srcBmp.getHeight(), 
     srcBmp.getHeight()
     );

}else{

  dstBmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(
     srcBmp,
     0, 
     srcBmp.getHeight()/2 - srcBmp.getWidth()/2,
     srcBmp.getWidth(),
     srcBmp.getWidth() 
     );
}