Load image from url

Question

I have an image URL. I want to display an image from this URL in an ImageView but I am unable to do that.

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

To me, Fresco is the best among the other libraries.

Just setup Fresco and then simply set the imageURI like this:

draweeView.setImageURI(uri);

Check out this answer explaining some of Fresco benefits.

Answer 2

The accepted answer above is great if you are loading the image based on a button click, however if you are doing it in a new activity it freezes up the UI for a second or two. Looking around I found that a simple asynctask eliminated this problem.

To use an asynctask to add this class at the end of your activity:

private class DownloadImageTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Bitmap> {
  ImageView bmImage;

  public DownloadImageTask(ImageView bmImage) {
      this.bmImage = bmImage;
  }

  protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... urls) {
      String urldisplay = urls[0];
      Bitmap mIcon11 = null;
      try {
        InputStream in = new java.net.URL(urldisplay).openStream();
        mIcon11 = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
      } catch (Exception e) {
          Log.e("Error", e.getMessage());
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
      return mIcon11;
  }

  protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
      bmImage.setImageBitmap(result);
  }
}

And call from your onCreate() method using:

new DownloadImageTask((ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView1))
        .execute(MY_URL_STRING);

Dont forget to add below permission in your manifest file

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

Works great for me. :)

Answer 3

Try this:

InputStream input = contentResolver.openInputStream(httpuri);
Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input, null, options);

Answer 4

URL url = new URL("http://image10.bizrate-images.com/resize?sq=60&uid=2216744464");
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());
imageView.setImageBitmap(bmp);

Answer 5

Best Method I have tried instead of using any libraries

public Bitmap getbmpfromURL(String surl){
    try {
        URL url = new URL(surl);
        HttpURLConnection urlcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        urlcon.setDoInput(true);
        urlcon.connect();
        InputStream in = urlcon.getInputStream();
        Bitmap mIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
        return  mIcon;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Error", e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 6

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class imageDownload {

    Bitmap bmImg;
    void downloadfile(String fileurl,ImageView img)
    {
        URL myfileurl =null;
        try
        {
            myfileurl= new URL(fileurl);

        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e)
        {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        try
        {
            HttpURLConnection conn= (HttpURLConnection)myfileurl.openConnection();
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            conn.connect();
            int length = conn.getContentLength();
            int[] bitmapData =new int[length];
            byte[] bitmapData2 =new byte[length];
            InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
            BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();

            bmImg = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is,null,options);

            img.setImageBitmap(bmImg);

            //dialog.dismiss();
            } 
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
//          Toast.makeText(PhotoRating.this, "Connection Problem. Try Again.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }


    }


}

in your activity take imageview & set resource imageDownload(url,yourImageview);