Rotating a drawable in Android

You need to use Bitmap and Canvas Class functions to prepare drawable:

Bitmap bmpOriginal = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(this.getResources(), R.drawable.image2);
Bitmap bmResult = Bitmap.createBitmap(bmpOriginal.getWidth(), bmpOriginal.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas tempCanvas = new Canvas(bmResult); 
tempCanvas.rotate(90, bmpOriginal.getWidth()/2, bmpOriginal.getHeight()/2);
tempCanvas.drawBitmap(bmpOriginal, 0, 0, null);

mImageView.setImageBitmap(bmResult);

In this code sample rotation for 90 degrees over image center occurs.

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