Android - Applying color to black and white image

Question

I have a transparent black and white image. I would like to apply specific color (say red) to the black portion of the image and leave white portion of the image as it is. How do i achieve this with Android mobile?

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This is the sample image http://i63.tinypic.com/206h6qw.jpg. In this picture i would like to change the black color to red color. I have tried the solution mentioned in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5699810/how-to-change-bitmap-image-color-in-android. They all change the white color also to red color — last-Programmer, Apr 11 '16 at 22:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '16 at 17:29

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Setting the color filter of imageview to LightingColorFilter (Color.White, Color.Red) provide the expected result.

answered Apr 22 '16 at 17:29

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 13:13

If you have your pic on some view / layout. You can achieve your goal by changing, setting background color on the view / layout under your image. (on the view under half transparent image).

Example

 yourViewUnderPic = findViewById(R.id.yourLayoutID);
 yourViewUnderPic.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#006400"));

Android - Applying color to black and white image

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