How do I get color of where I click?

Question

I have an image view on my screen. The image consist of shades of gray. When I click on the picture I want to get rgb code of where I click. It is possible on Android?

I think this is pretty fully answered at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7807360/how-to-get-pixel-colour-in-android. — Neil Townsend, Jun 05 '13 at 12:09
When I put the color, I set a tag to the image view. Later, I do getTag() to get the information — mromer, Jun 05 '13 at 12:10

dberm22 · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-05T12:40:55.333

Try this in your onTouch call:

public boolean onTouch (View v, MotionEvent ev) 
{

    final int action = ev.getAction();

    final int evX = (int) ev.getX();
    final int evY = (int) ev.getY();

    switch (action) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN :
           break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP :
           ImageView img = (ImageView) findViewById (YOUR_IMG_DRAWABLE);
           img.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); 
           Bitmap imgbmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(img.getDrawingCache()); 
           img.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
           int pxl = imgbmp.getPixel(evX, evY);
           int redComponent = Color.red(pxl);
           int greenComponent = Color.green(pxl);
           int blueComponent = Color.blue(pxl);

           ...USE COLOR HERE...

           break;
    }

}

Hope that helps!

Raghunandan · Answer 2 · 2013-06-05T12:34:11.430

You can use the below for reference. You can override imageview on touch listener and get the pixel and rgb values of the imageview.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

ImageView iv;
int redValue,blueValue,greenValue;
int pixel; 
Bitmap bitmap;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    iv= (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
    BitmapDrawable bitmapDrawable = (BitmapDrawable)iv.getDrawable();
    bitmap = bitmapDrawable.getBitmap();
    iv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener()
    {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:   
               // int color = bitmap.getPixel(event.getX(),event.getY());
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: 
                pixel = bitmap.getPixel((int)event.getX(),(int)event.getY());
                redValue = Color.red(pixel);
                blueValue = Color.blue(pixel);
                greenValue = Color.green(pixel);
                System.out.println("...."+redValue+"..blue"+blueValue+"..."+greenValue+"color"+pixel);
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,""+pixel, 1000).show();
                break;
            }

            return true;
    }

    });
}
}

How do I get color of where I click?

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