How to make TextView with Drawable on the left that(drawable) can be set programmaticaly from a url coming from the server.
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earthw0rmjim
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You make a network request and update an ImageView. Please share what you have tried to research to implement this feature. – OneCricketeer Jun 11 '16 at 07:52
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What is the problem? – Janki Gadhiya Jun 11 '16 at 07:52
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Possible duplicate: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8464506/how-to-display-an-image-from-an-url-within-textview – OneCricketeer Jun 11 '16 at 07:53
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Well, the first step is to decode the image from the URL.
You could do something like this:
String yourUrl = "http://someUrl"; // insert your URL here
// connect, get an instance of the InputStream
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(yourUrl).openConnection();
InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
// decode the stream into a Bitmap and create a Drawable from it
Bitmap tempBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream);
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), tempBitmap);
And then, set it as a compound drawable on the left side of your TextView:
// the order is left, top, right, bottom, so you need to set the first param
yourTextView.setCompoundDrawables(drawable, null, null, null);
earthw0rmjim
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Use Volley Class to load images https://developer.android.com/training/volley/request.html
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