Every time I unlock my phone, there is an activity that appears suddenly.
I want the background of this activity to appear blurry, so that any subsequent activity opened will have a blurry background. The problem is, I don't know which app's activity will be behind mine,
as it could be from any application.
Therefore, I am unable to use the method that blurs the last activity I accessed within my own app.
I found a guide on how to blur/glass/frost the current activity in Android
I have implemented a blur builder as specified here
to create a blurry transparent background effect
like this
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.renderscript.Allocation;
import android.renderscript.Element;
import android.renderscript.RenderScript;
import android.renderscript.ScriptIntrinsicBlur;
import android.view.View;
public class BlurBuilder {
private static final float BITMAP_SCALE = 0.4f;
private static final float BLUR_RADIUS = 7.5f;
public static Bitmap blur(View v) {
return blur(v.getContext(), getScreenshot(v));
}
public static Bitmap blur(Context ctx, Bitmap image) {
int width = Math.round(image.getWidth() * BITMAP_SCALE);
int height = Math.round(image.getHeight() * BITMAP_SCALE);
Bitmap inputBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(image, width, height, false);
Bitmap outputBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(inputBitmap);
RenderScript rs = RenderScript.create(ctx);
ScriptIntrinsicBlur theIntrinsic = ScriptIntrinsicBlur.create(rs, Element.U8_4(rs));
Allocation tmpIn = Allocation.createFromBitmap(rs, inputBitmap);
Allocation tmpOut = Allocation.createFromBitmap(rs, outputBitmap);
theIntrinsic.setRadius(BLUR_RADIUS);
theIntrinsic.setInput(tmpIn);
theIntrinsic.forEach(tmpOut);
tmpOut.copyTo(outputBitmap);
return outputBitmap;
}
private static Bitmap getScreenshot(View v) {
Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(v.getWidth(), v.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
v.draw(c);
return b;
}
}
However, I am unsure about how to integrate this into the onCreate method of my activity.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated!