How to get a Bitmap from an ImageView

presently setDrawingCacheEnabled has been deprecated, so another solution is using

ImageView imageView = findViewById(R.id.image);
Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable)imageView.getDrawable()).getBitmap();

Or to obtain Bitmap from Uri, we can use the Glide library.

Bitmap bitmap = Glide.with(this) //taking as bitmap
                     .load(uri //Uri)
                     .asBitmap()
                     .into(100, 100) //width and height
                     .get();

Using Glide is quite good for handling bitmaps. Refer the docs at Handling Bitmaps

Oh, this is a simple error. You need to add this before the code where you are trying to get Bitmap out of the ImageView:

imageView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);

In order to get the Bitmap out of the ImageView using DrawingCache, you first need to enable ImageView to draw image cache.

then:

Bitmap bmap = imageView.getDrawingCache();

Also, calling buildDrawingCache(); is equivalent to calling buildDrawingCache(false);

I had the problem that the bitmap still always resulted in null (even though using the drawing cache, probably some race with the Facebook ShareButton/ShareContent) so I had the following solution to make sure that glide was done loading the image:

Add a listener to glide

Glide.with(this)
        .load(url)
        .listener(listener)
        .into(imageView);

The Listener

private RequestListener listener = new RequestListener() {
    ...

    @Override
    public boolean onResourceReady(Object resource, Object model, Target target, DataSource dataSource, boolean isFirstResource) {

        Bitmap bitmap = ((BitmapDrawable) resource).getBitmap();
        return false;
    }
};