How to load an ImageView by URL in Android? [closed]

Answer 1

This is a late reply, as suggested above AsyncTask will will and after googling a bit i found one more way for this problem.

Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream((InputStream) new URL("url").getContent(), "src");

imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);

Here is the complete function:

public void loadMapPreview () {
    //start a background thread for networking
    new Thread(new Runnable() {
        public void run(){
            try {
                //download the drawable
                final Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream((InputStream) new URL("url").getContent(), "src");
                //edit the view in the UI thread
                imageView.post(new Runnable() {
                    public void run() {
                        imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);
                    }
                });
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }).start();
}

Don't forget to add the following permissions in your AndroidManifest.xml to access the internet.

I tried this myself and i have not face any issue yet.