Generate bitmap from HTML in Android
You can use the draw method to let it draw in a Bitmap of your choice. I made an example, don't forget internet and external storage rights of your manifest:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private WebView mWebView;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mWebView = new WebView(this);
setContentView(mWebView);
mWebView.loadUrl("http://tea.ch");
}
@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if (keyCode != KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
Bitmap bm = Bitmap.createBitmap(200, 300, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(bm);
mWebView.draw(c);
OutputStream stream = null;
try {
stream = new FileOutputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() +"/teach.png");
bm.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 80, stream);
if (stream != null) stream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
} finally {
bm.recycle();
}
return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}
}
A synchronous method that generates a bitmap from an HTML string using a WebView, and can be used within an AsyncTask:
public Bitmap getBitmap(final WebView w, int containerWidth, int containerHeight, final String baseURL, final String content) {
final CountDownLatch signal = new CountDownLatch(1);
final Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(containerWidth, containerHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
final AtomicBoolean ready = new AtomicBoolean(false);
w.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
w.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
ready.set(true);
}
});
w.setPictureListener(new PictureListener() {
@Override
public void onNewPicture(WebView view, Picture picture) {
if (ready.get()) {
final Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
view.draw(c);
w.setPictureListener(null);
signal.countDown();
}
}
});
w.layout(0, 0, rect.width(), rect.height());
w.loadDataWithBaseURL(baseURL, content, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);
}});
try {
signal.await();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return b;
}
It has some limitations, but it's a start.