How to Draw Rectangle on Imageview ?

If you already have a bitmap image in your code, just use this code snippet.

bmp = bmp.copy(Bitmap.Config.RGB_565, true);

That code will recreate the bitmap image as a mutable. So you can edit that bitmap image on canvas as you like.

But if you do not have a bitmap image in code, create a new one using this code snippet.

Bitmap bmp=Bitmap.createBitmap(img.getHeight(),img.getWidth(),Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);

where img is another bitmap image you want to make a new one with the height and width of it. If you want to create one from scratch here is the code snippet.

Bitmap bmp=Bitmap.createBitmap(400,700,Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);

After that, create a canvas and pass the bitmap image you have.

Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmp);

If you want to draw the bitmap image on the canvas after creating the canvas, use this code snippet.

Canvas canvas = new Canvas();
// bitmap from path
canvas.drawBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picPath), 0, 0, null);
// bitmap itself
canvas.drawBitmap(btmp, 0, 0, null);

Then, choose the painting options for the rectangles as you can see in the following code snippet.

Paint paint = new Paint();
paint.setAlpha(0xA0); // the transparency
paint.setColor(Color.RED); // color is red
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); // stroke or fill or ...
paint.setStrokeWidth(1); // the stroke width

After choosing the painting options, write the dimensions of the rectangles using this code.

Rect r = new Rect(0, 0, 10, 20);

The rectangle will be draw / painted from point (0,0) to point (10,20).

To draw that rectangle on the canvas, use this code snippet.

canvas.drawRect(r, paint);

After finish editing the canvas, re-assign the new bitmap (edited with canvas) to the imageview using this code snippet in [Java].

imageView.setImageBitmap(bmp);

That code will make sure the changes appear on the bitmap of imageview which the user can see.

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