Arduino Tutorial: Bitmap graphics on an Arduino Touch Screen and other top Arduino Displays

In this video tutorial we are going to learn how load bitmap graphics in our Arduino Touch Screen projects using Adafruit's GFX library. We are going to use some of the most popular Arduino displays. Let's get started!

The procedure that I am going to describe works with all the color displays that are supported by Adafruit's GFX library and by the displays that use the TFTLCD library from Adafruit with a small modification. So from the displays I own I can use the color OLED display, the 1.8" ST7735 color TFT display, the 2.8" Color Touch Screen that I reviewed a few weeks ago and the 3.5" Color TFT display. You can find links for all the displays below.

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[eshansingh]

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for providing CC (captions). My deaf friend loves your channel because it's pretty much the only electronics hobby channel that provides this.

[alessiocolbacchini]

Thank you for sharing, I finally got my ILI9341 to display bitmaps thanks to your tutorial

[Ribos]

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[interlinkknight]

I enjoy the video and thanks for the help, but I always thought this displays were too slow for real graphics (is so slow you can see the frame loading from up to down). I have a future project I am planning to do and require to show gauges on a color display. I search everywhere and find that arduino is just too slow. But arduino is all I know. So later I found a display called nextion and it seems much better than any other display used for arduino because it has its own graphic processor, so is very fast displaying graphics. Not sure if you ever tried nextion, but I think is a better option for this kind of projects.

With that I don't mean stop making this videos, though. I am subscribed to your channel and I plan to keep it that way. Is just a suggestion for the future.

[issecret]

I might just now understand why I couldn't get this right. THANK YOU

[themonkey]

Please make tutorial on how to get the image to code Java utility.

[JBM_]

Very good tutorial to learn how to use this library and display pictures on TFT screen :) Thanks !

[VasilisKarastergios]

Ευγε απογονε ελληνων, αναλυτικοτατος οπως παντα!!

[charlesmwamba]

Awesome!! this is now a solution to what i would like to work on. Some more tutorials of this kind you

[nickmccullough]

This is perfect timing for a project I'm working on. Thanks!

[ohnoeehiddengemamardanial]

Thank you so much for such amazing tutorial as always.✨✨

Is there's a tutorial to display GIF for 2.8 TFT touchscreen LCD?

[brewdog]

Love the video! this should help me design boot up screens and menu icons for several projects! however i am having some trouble with the demo code, even trying your examples loaded directly from the folder. I get a white screen that flashes everytime it would change colors of your bitmaps.

[ARiLDSONV]

brilliant video! thank you so much for the extremely useful information - keep up the great content!

[LUCKY]

nice work as always
I saw one LCD brand name is Nextion
could you please make a tutorial on it to make a temperature and humidity controller with DHT22
Thanks for valuable support

[jamest.]

I would like to use a display like this for gauges in a car. would this be reliable enough for that? could arduino hold all the program for that. I have some awesome ideas. if this will work. great video as usual.

[ovalwingnut]

👍😁 OUTSTANDING! Thank You (I love you man:)

[SergeiJonovich]

Thanks Nick, another really interesting tutorial - already have a few ideas to utilise these. Seasons greetings by the way! Jono

[rafaelmarroquin]

really good and very easy to follow thanks for ur videos.
(I have a fingerprint sensor but all wire are the same color (red) and i dont know how to test which wire is for vcc and gnd and the others pinout) if you can help me plse.

[Cesar-dtnl]

Any chance to explain how to work with gradle to change the bmp to arrays?

[Simoncressey]

Cool vid just subbed your vid on rotary encoders helped me out on a project you seam to know a lot about arduino displays I am a little suck on an idea I had is there a way to run video clips on an arduino