android - Making specific color in bitmap transparent

Question

I have an Android application to display an image on another image, such that second image's white colour is transparent. To do this, I have used two ImageViews, with the original image to be overlaid as bitmap1 and the image to be made transparent as bitmap2. When I run this, I get some exceptions at the setPixel method.

Here's my code:

Bitmap bitmap2 = null;
int width = imViewOverLay.getWidth();
int height = imViewOverLay.getHeight();
for(int x = 0; x < width; x++)
{
    for(int y = 0; y < height; y++)
    {
        if(bitMap1.getPixel(x, y) == Color.WHITE)
        {
            bitmap2.setPixel(x, y, Color.TRANSPARENT);
        }
        else
        {
            bitmap2.setPixel(x, y, bitMap1.getPixel(x, y));
        }
    }
}

imViewOverLay is the ImageView of the overlay image. Any idea what might be going wrong in the above code?

Answer 1

The most obvious error is that you're not creating bitmap2 - unless you've not posted all the code of course.

You declare it and set it to null, but then don't do anything else until you try to call bitmap2.setPixel.