java - Android: padding left a bitmap with white color

Question

How to set all white the 10 rows on the left side of a Bitmap? I'v got a Bitmap that has to be padded on the left side. I thought i can create a new image iterate on the old one getpixel for each position and setpixel on the new one (white or colored) than return the new bitmap...is this wrong? Any suggestion? thanks a lot!

Answer 1

You can instead create a new Bitmap with the extra padding number of pixels. Set this as the canvas bitmap and Color the entire image with the required color and then copy your bitmap.

public Bitmap pad(Bitmap Src, int padding_x, int padding_y) {
    Bitmap outputimage = Bitmap.createBitmap(Src.getWidth() + padding_x,Src.getHeight() + padding_y, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    Canvas can = new Canvas(outputimage);
    can.drawARGB(FF,FF,FF,FF); //This represents White color
    can.drawBitmap(Src, padding_x, padding_y, null);
    return outputimage;
}