How to download a image from URL in App

Question

I\'d like to know how I can download an Image from a given URL and display it inside an ImageView. And is there any permissions required to men

Answer 1

Use background thread to get image and after getting image set it in imageview using hanndler.

new Thread(){
     public void run() {
        try {
            Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new URL("http://imageurl").openStream());
            Message msg = new Message();
            msg.obj = bitmap;
            imageHandler.sendMessage(msg);
         } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
         } 
     }
 }.start();

Handler code where we set downloaded image in imgaeview.

Handler imageHandler = new Handler(){
    public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
        if(msg.obj!=null && msg.obj instanceof Bitmap){
            imageview.setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable((Bitmap)msg.obj));
        }

    };
};

And ofcourse you need internet permission.