How to make an image of the current rendered map (mapbox-android)?

Question

Is it possible to make a png or data-url of the current view on the map?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 26 '19 at 06:33

You can simply save the current map as a .png, by taking a screenshot (MapboxMap#snapshot) after the map has loaded.

Ensure you've got the appropriate build.gradle dependency:

implementation ('com.mapbox.mapboxsdk:mapbox-android-sdk:5.3.0-SNAPSHOT@aar'){
    transitive = true
}

Code for capturing the map:

private void captureScreen() {

    mMapBoxMap.snapshot(new MapboxMap.SnapshotReadyCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onSnapshotReady(Bitmap snapshot) {
            ImageView snapshotView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.);
            snapshotView.setImageBitmap(snapshot);
        }
    });
}

Hope this helps you.

This won't work as the map referred in the OP is a SurfaceView (when creating images as shown in this answer, you will get a black image without a map) — Tobrun, Dec 07 '17 at 06:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '17 at 06:52

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There are 2 ways of getting a map bitmap:

from an existing map with MapboxMap#snapshot(SnapshotReadyCallback)
without an existing map using the MapSnapshotter.java class and the related options class.

answered Dec 07 '17 at 06:52

Tobrun

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How to make an image of the current rendered map (mapbox-android)?

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