How to draw a bitmap to a SurfaceView?

Question

I am trying to draw a bitmap to my SurfaceView actually with the following code: (this will be run in another Thread and in a while, because it needs to refresh the SurfaceView).

        while (true)
        {
            try
            {
                // Enable drawing
                // ERROR LINE!
                Canvas ca = mPreview2.Holder.LockCanvas();

                // Get current frame
                Bitmap test = mediaPlayer.CurrentFrame;

                // Actual drawing
                Paint paint = new Paint();
                ca.DrawBitmap(test, 0, 0, paint);   

                // Stop drawing
                mPreview2.Holder.UnlockCanvasAndPost(ca);
            } catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw ex;
            }
        }

But I've got the following error: (this is happening on line: Canvas ca = mPreview2.Holder.LockCanvas();

Java.Lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean android.graphics.Bitmap.isRecycled()' on a null object reference

Answer 1

Right now I can draw a bitmap, but I have still one problem!

Because the quality of the right screen is really bad (see image):

PROBLEM SOLVED:

What I did is using a MemoryStream which compress the Bitmap to .JPG with a quality of 100 and decode the byte array to a Bitmap. It works great now! See code below:

   private void DrawCanvas()
        {
            while (true)
            {
                Canvas canvas = holder2.LockCanvas();

                if (canvas != null)
                {
                    Bitmap currentBitmap = mediaPlayer.CurrentFrame;

                    if(currentBitmap != null)
                    {
                        Paint paint = new Paint();

                        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

                        currentBitmap.Compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.Jpeg, 100, ms);

                        byte[] bitmapData = ms.ToArray();

                        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.DecodeByteArray(bitmapData, 0, bitmapData.Length);

                        Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.CreateScaledBitmap(bitmap, mPreview2.Width, mPreview2.Height, true);

                        canvas.DrawBitmap(scaledBitmap, 0, 0, paint);

                        bitmap.Recycle();
                        scaledBitmap.Recycle();
                        currentBitmap.Recycle();
                    }
                    holder2.UnlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);
                }
            }
        }