get bitmap from textview in android

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Published on 2010-06-13T17:03:41Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 17:12 UTC
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I want to get the bitmap that is drawn when a textview is displayed but without displaying the textview in the activity. something like this:

TextView t = new TextView(this);
t.forceToDrawItself();
Bitmap b=t.getViewBitmap();

how is this possible?

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