Android - Save image from URL onto SD card

Question

I want to save an image from a URL to the SD card (for future use) and then load that image from the SD card to use it as a drawable overlay for Google maps.

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Answer 1

I also faced the same issue and resolved mine with this. Try this

private class ImageDownloadAndSave extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Bitmap>
        {
            @Override
            protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... arg0) 
            {           
                downloadImagesToSdCard("","");
                return null;
            }

               private void downloadImagesToSdCard(String downloadUrl,String imageName)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        URL url = new URL(img_URL); 
                        /* making a directory in sdcard */
                        String sdCard=Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();     
                        File myDir = new File(sdCard,"test.jpg");

                        /*  if specified not exist create new */
                        if(!myDir.exists())
                        {
                            myDir.mkdir();
                            Log.v("", "inside mkdir");
                        }

                        /* checks the file and if it already exist delete */
                        String fname = imageName;
                        File file = new File (myDir, fname);
                        if (file.exists ()) 
                            file.delete (); 

                             /* Open a connection */
                        URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
                        InputStream inputStream = null;
                        HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection)ucon;
                        httpConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
                        httpConn.connect();

                          if (httpConn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) 
                          {
                           inputStream = httpConn.getInputStream();
                          }

                            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);  
                int totalSize = httpConn.getContentLength();
                        int downloadedSize = 0;   
                        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
                        int bufferLength = 0;
                        while ( (bufferLength = inputStream.read(buffer)) >0 ) 
                        {                 
                          fos.write(buffer, 0, bufferLength);                  
                          downloadedSize += bufferLength;                 
                          Log.i("Progress:","downloadedSize:"+downloadedSize+"totalSize:"+ totalSize) ;
                        }   

                            fos.close();
                            Log.d("test", "Image Saved in sdcard..");                      
                    }
                    catch(IOException io)
                    {                  
                         io.printStackTrace();
                    }
                    catch(Exception e)
                    {                     
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }           
        } 

Declare your network operations in AsyncTask as it will load it as a background task. Don't load network operation on main thread. After this either in button click or in content view call this class like

 new ImageDownloadAndSave().execute("");

And don't forget to add the nework permission as:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Hope this may help someone :-)