I am developing Restaurant application. After the order completion, i need to display bill (items price and total amount) in AlertView
.
Is it possible to take print out of that AlertView
in wifi printer? How to make it?
Yes it is possible to print a layout create a bitmap from the layout and send a intent to the printer app as in the following code
yourRootLayout.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
yourRootLayout.setDrawingCacheQuality(View.DRAWING_CACHE_QUALITY_HIGH);
yourRootLayout.buildDrawingCache();
Bitmap dummyImageBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(yourRootLayout
.getDrawingCache());
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
dummyImageBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, out);
byte[] photoArray = out.toByteArray();
yourRootLayout.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
try {
File file = new File(getFilePath());//path to sdcard
if (file.exists()) {
file.delete();
}
FileOutputStream outPut = new FileOutputStream(file);
outPut.write(photoArray);
outPut.flush();
outPut.close();
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("application/pdf");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(file));
startActivity(intent);
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new Exception("Error generating file", e);
}
now this will pop a a list of apps you will have to select the printers app that allows printing via wifi