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Rick Boyer
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Rick Boyer has been programming professionally for over 20 years. He has written apps on Windows, created websites, and coded for various mobile devices, including Windows CE, Windows Phone, and Android. Almost eight years ago, he took the plunge and started his own software consulting business, NightSky Development, focusing exclusively on Android development.
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Creating a circle image with the new ImageDecoder


As mentioned in the previous recipe, the ImageDecoder library is a new library introduced in Android P and promises many new and exciting features not available before with the BitmapFactory class. One of those features is the ability to apply effects to the image with a post processor. A post processor is a new helper class allowing you to add custom processing (or manipulation) to an image after it is loaded. Custom processing might include adding a tint to the image, drawing (such as stamps) on top of the image, adding a frame, or in our example making the image round.

In our example, we start with a rectangle image (downloaded from Pixabay.com, which you can see here: https://pixabay.com/en/wallpaper-background-eclipse-1492818/.) We then apply a post processor to create a rounded image, as you can see in this screenshot: 

This is another exciting new feature available in the ImageDecoder library because until now, developers usually turned...

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Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition
Published in: Oct 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788991216

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Rick Boyer

Rick Boyer has been programming professionally for over 20 years. He has written apps on Windows, created websites, and coded for various mobile devices, including Windows CE, Windows Phone, and Android. Almost eight years ago, he took the plunge and started his own software consulting business, NightSky Development, focusing exclusively on Android development.
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