Image not loading with picasso or glide..keeps displaying black background

Question

I\'m trying to load an image from firebase database using picasso, but no matter what I try it keeps doing the same thing ... I even tried using glide

Here\'s what\'s h

Answer 1

When you use the following line

final String downloadUrl = filePath.getDownloadUrl().toString();

filePath.getDownloadUrl() returns the task ID (com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzu@f30b587) which you then save to the database instead of the actual url , so when you use the following line to get the url (to load the image in via picasso) you are just getting the upload id! No a usable url.

String image = dataSnapshot.child("profileimage").getValue(String.class);

To fix this you need to get the download url in an async task after firebase storage upload. As per https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/android/upload-files#get_a_download_url

Then add the actual url to the firebase database which links the database to the stored image :) I'm sure there a more elegant method but this works.