Image rotating in Android

There is an easy way for image rotating in Android from code. I am going to show example.
Here I will use application’s icon as image and Matrix class.
Example:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ImageView.ScaleType;

/**
 * This Activity shows how to rotate an image (Bitmap) using Matrix class
 * @author FaYnaSoft Labs
 */
public class Main extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        LinearLayout linearLayout = new LinearLayout(this);

		Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.icon);

		int width = bitmap.getWidth();
		int height = bitmap.getHeight();

		Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
		matrix.postRotate(90);

		Bitmap rotatedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, width,
				height, matrix, true);
		BitmapDrawable bmd = new BitmapDrawable(rotatedBitmap);

		ImageView imageView = new ImageView(this);
		imageView.setImageDrawable(bmd);
		imageView.setScaleType(ScaleType.CENTER);

		linearLayout.addView(imageView, new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
				LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
		setContentView(linearLayout);
    }
}

That’s all.
Main methods are:

matrix.postRotate(90);

and

Bitmap rotatedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, width, height, matrix, true);

As you can see it is simple.

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