I am using following method to taking screen shot of a particular view which is a SurfaceView.

public void takeScreenShot(View surface_view){

    // create bitmap screen capture
    Bitmap bitmap;
    View v1 = surface_view;
    v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(v1.getDrawingCache());
    v1.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    bitmap.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 0, bos);
    byte[] imageData = bos.toByteArray();

}

the problem is its giving me the whole activity screen image. But I need to take screen shot of the particular view. I tried other ways but those give me a black screen as screen shot, some posts says that it requires rooted device. Can any one help me please. I'm in need of this solution. Help me....