Android: How to rotate a bitmap on a center point

I've been looking for over a day for a solution to this problem but nothing helps, even the answers here. Documentation doesn't explain anything too.

I am simply trying to get a rotation in the direction of another object. The problem is that the bitmap is not rotated around a fixed point, but rather around the bitmaps (0,0).

Here is the code I am having troubles with:

  Matrix mtx = new Matrix();
  mtx.reset();
  mtx.preTranslate(-centerX, -centerY);
  mtx.setRotate((float)direction, -centerX, -centerY);
  mtx.postTranslate(pivotX, pivotY);
  Bitmap rotatedBMP = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, spriteWidth, spriteHeight, mtx, true);
  this.bitmap = rotatedBMP;

The weird part is, it doesn't matter how I change the values within pre/postTranslate() and the float arguments in setRotation(). Can someone please help and push me in the right direction? :)