How to load an ImageView by URL in Android?

Question

How do you use an image referenced by URL in an ImageView?

Answer 1

From Android developer:

// show The Image in a ImageView
new DownloadImageTask((ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView1))
            .execute("http://java.sogeti.nl/JavaBlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android_icon_256.png");

public void onClick(View v) {
    startActivity(new Intent(this, IndexActivity.class));
    finish();

}

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);
    }
}

Make sure you have the following permissions set in your AndroidManifest.xml to access the internet.

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

Answer 2

1. Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application—often in one line of code!

Use Gradle:

implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:(insert latest version)'

Just one line of code!

Picasso.get().load("http://i.imgur.com/DvpvklR.png").into(imageView);

2. Glide An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling

Use Gradle:

repositories {
   mavenCentral() 
   google()
}

dependencies {
   implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.11.0'
   annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.11.0'
}

// For a simple view:
Glide.with(this).load("http://i.imgur.com/DvpvklR.png").into(imageView);

3. fresco is a powerful system for displaying images on Android applications. Fresco takes care of image loading and display, so you don't have to.

Getting Started with Fresco

4. Coil is an image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.

implementation("io.coil-kt:coil:2.3.0")

To load an image into an ImageView, use the load extension function:

imageView.load("https://example.com/image.jpg")

Answer 3

You'll have to download the image firstly

public static Bitmap loadBitmap(String url) {
    Bitmap bitmap = null;
    InputStream in = null;
    BufferedOutputStream out = null;

    try {
        in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream(), IO_BUFFER_SIZE);

        final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
        copy(in, out);
        out.flush();

        final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
        BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        //options.inSampleSize = 1;

        bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length,options);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Could not load Bitmap from: " + url);
    } finally {
        closeStream(in);
        closeStream(out);
    }

    return bitmap;
}

Then use the Imageview.setImageBitmap to set bitmap into the ImageView

Answer 4

Anyway people ask my comment to post it as answer. i am posting.

URL newurl = new URL(photo_url_str); 
mIcon_val = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(newurl.openConnection().getInputStream());
profile_photo.setImageBitmap(mIcon_val);

Answer 5

I wrote a class to handle this, as it seems to be a recurring need in my various projects:

https://github.com/koush/UrlImageViewHelper

UrlImageViewHelper will fill an ImageView with an image that is found at a URL.

The sample will do a Google Image Search and load/show the results asynchronously.

UrlImageViewHelper will automatically download, save, and cache all the image urls the BitmapDrawables. Duplicate urls will not be loaded into memory twice. Bitmap memory is managed by using a weak reference hash table, so as soon as the image is no longer used by you, it will be garbage collected automatically.

Answer 6

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 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);

The result is a quickly loaded activity and an imageview that shows up a split second later depending on the user's network speed.

Answer 7

You could also use this LoadingImageView view to load an image from a url:

http://blog.blundellapps.com/imageview-with-loading-spinner/

Once you have added the class file from that link you can instantiate a url image view:

in xml:

<com.blundell.tut.LoaderImageView
  android:id="@+id/loaderImageView"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  image="http://developer.android.com/images/dialog_buttons.png"
 />

In code:

final LoaderImageView image = new LoaderImageView(this, "http://developer.android.com/images/dialog_buttons.png");

And update it using:

image.setImageDrawable("http://java.sogeti.nl/JavaBlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android_icon_256.png");

Answer 8

The best modern library for such a task in my opinion is Picasso by Square. It allows to load an image to an ImageView by URL with one-liner:

Picasso.with(context).load("http://i.imgur.com/DvpvklR.png").into(imageView);

Answer 9

public class LoadWebImg extends Activity {

String image_URL=
 "http://java.sogeti.nl/JavaBlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android_icon_256.png";

   /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.main);

       ImageView bmImage = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.image);
    BitmapFactory.Options bmOptions;
    bmOptions = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    bmOptions.inSampleSize = 1;
    Bitmap bm = LoadImage(image_URL, bmOptions);
    bmImage.setImageBitmap(bm);
   }

   private Bitmap LoadImage(String URL, BitmapFactory.Options options)
   {       
    Bitmap bitmap = null;
    InputStream in = null;       
       try {
           in = OpenHttpConnection(URL);
           bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, options);
           in.close();
       } catch (IOException e1) {
       }
       return bitmap;               
   }

private InputStream OpenHttpConnection(String strURL) throws IOException{
 InputStream inputStream = null;
 URL url = new URL(strURL);
 URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();

 try{
  HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection)conn;
  httpConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
  httpConn.connect();

  if (httpConn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
   inputStream = httpConn.getInputStream();
  }
 }
 catch (Exception ex)
 {
 }
 return inputStream;
}
}

Answer 10

Hi I have the most easiest code try this

    public class ImageFromUrlExample extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.main);  
            ImageView imgView =(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.ImageView01);
            Drawable drawable = LoadImageFromWebOperations("http://www.androidpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/android.png");
            imgView.setImageDrawable(drawable);

    }

    private Drawable LoadImageFromWebOperations(String url)
    {
          try{
        InputStream is = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent();
        Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src name");
        return d;
      }catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Exc="+e);
        return null;
      }
    }
   }

main.xml

  <LinearLayout 
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <ImageView 
       android:id="@+id/ImageView01"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>

try this

Answer 11

I have recently found a thread here, as I have to do a similar thing for a listview with images, but the principle is simple, as you can read in the first sample class shown there (by jleedev). You get the Input stream of the image (from web)

private InputStream fetch(String urlString) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet request = new HttpGet(urlString);
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
    return response.getEntity().getContent();
}

Then you store the image as Drawable and you can pass it to the ImageView (via setImageDrawable). Again from the upper code snippet take a look at the entire thread.

InputStream is = fetch(urlString);
Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src");

Answer 12

Lots of good info in here...I recently found a class called SmartImageView that seems to be working really well so far. Very easy to incorporate and use.

http://loopj.com/android-smart-image-view/

https://github.com/loopj/android-smart-image-view

UPDATE: I ended up writing a blog post about this, so check it out for help on using SmartImageView.

2ND UPDATE: I now always use Picasso for this (see above) and highly recommend it. :)

Answer 13

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.

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

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

Answer 14

imageView.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageUrl.openStream()));//try/catch IOException and MalformedURLException outside

Answer 15

This will help you...

Define imageview and load image into it .....

Imageview i = (ImageView) vv.findViewById(R.id.img_country);
i.setImageBitmap(DownloadFullFromUrl(url));

Then Define this method :

    public Bitmap DownloadFullFromUrl(String imageFullURL) {
    Bitmap bm = null;
    try {
        URL url = new URL(imageFullURL);
        URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
        InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
        BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
        ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
        int current = 0;
        while ((current = bis.read()) != -1) {
            baf.append((byte) current);
        }
        bm = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(baf.toByteArray(), 0,
                baf.toByteArray().length);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.d("ImageManager", "Error: " + e);
    }
    return bm;
}

Answer 16

    String img_url= //url of the image
    URL url=new URL(img_url);
    Bitmap bmp; 
    bmp=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());
    ImageView iv=(ImageView)findviewById(R.id.imageview);
    iv.setImageBitmap(bmp);

Answer 17

Version with exception handling and async task:

AsyncTask<URL, Void, Boolean> asyncTask = new AsyncTask<URL, Void, Boolean>() {
    public Bitmap mIcon_val;
    public IOException error;

    @Override
    protected Boolean doInBackground(URL... params) {
        try {
            mIcon_val = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(params[0].openConnection().getInputStream());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            this.error = e;
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean success) {
        super.onPostExecute(success);
        if (success) {
            image.setImageBitmap(mIcon_val);
        } else {
            image.setImageBitmap(defaultImage);
        }
    }
};
try {
    URL url = new URL(url);
    asyncTask.execute(url);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 18

A simple and clean way to do this is to use the open source library Prime.

Answer 19

This code is tested, it is completely working.

URL req = new URL(
"http://java.sogeti.nl/JavaBlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android_icon_256.png"
);
Bitmap mIcon_val = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(req.openConnection()
                  .getInputStream());

Answer 20

Android Query can handle that for you and much more (like cache and loading progress).

Take a look at here.

I think is the best approach.

Answer 21

Working for imageView in any container , like listview grid view , normal layout

 private class LoadImagefromUrl extends AsyncTask< Object, Void, Bitmap > {
        ImageView ivPreview = null;

        @Override
        protected Bitmap doInBackground( Object... params ) {
            this.ivPreview = (ImageView) params[0];
            String url = (String) params[1];
            System.out.println(url);
            return loadBitmap( url );
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute( Bitmap result ) {
            super.onPostExecute( result );
            ivPreview.setImageBitmap( result );
        }
    }

    public Bitmap loadBitmap( String url ) {
        URL newurl = null;
        Bitmap bitmap = null;
        try {
            newurl = new URL( url );
            bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream( newurl.openConnection( ).getInputStream( ) );
        } catch ( MalformedURLException e ) {
            e.printStackTrace( );
        } catch ( IOException e ) {

            e.printStackTrace( );
        }
        return bitmap;
    }
/** Usage **/
  new LoadImagefromUrl( ).execute( imageView, url );

Answer 22

Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.

Here I explain about how to use "AndroidQuery" external library for load image from url/server in asyncTask manner with also cache loaded image to device file or cache area.

• Download "AndroidQuery" library from here
• Copy/Paste this jar to project lib folder and add this library to project build-path
• Now I show demo to how to use it.

activity_main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center">

        <FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/imageFromUrl"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:adjustViewBounds="true"/>
            <ProgressBar
                android:id="@+id/pbrLoadImage"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center"/>

        </FrameLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private AQuery aQuery;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    aQuery = new AQuery(this);
    aQuery.id(R.id.imageFromUrl).progress(R.id.pbrLoadImage).image("http://itechthereforeiam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/android-gone-packing.jpg",true,true);
 }
}

Note : Here I just implemented common method to load image from url/server but you can use various types of method which can be provided by "AndroidQuery"to load your image easily.

Answer 23

    private Bitmap getImageBitmap(String url) {
        Bitmap bm = null;
        try {
            URL aURL = new URL(url);
            URLConnection conn = aURL.openConnection();
            conn.connect();
            InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
            bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);
            bis.close();
            is.close();
       } catch (IOException e) {
           Log.e(TAG, "Error getting bitmap", e);
       }
       return bm;
    }