You can use copyPixelsToBuffer()
to move the pixel data to a Buffer
, or you can use getPixels()
and then convert the integers to bytes with bit-shifting.
copyPixelsToBuffer()
is probably what you’ll want to use, so here is an example on how you can use it:
//b is the Bitmap
//calculate how many bytes our image consists of.
int bytes = b.getByteCount();
//or we can calculate bytes this way. Use a different value than 4 if you don't use 32bit images.
//int bytes = b.getWidth()*b.getHeight()*4;
ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bytes); //Create a new buffer
b.copyPixelsToBuffer(buffer); //Move the byte data to the buffer
byte[] array = buffer.array(); //Get the underlying array containing the data.