No image from glide in Firestore

Question

I'm aware that people have had this problem before and there are solutions using Firebase Realtime Database, but I'm using Cloud Firestore and I'm trying to fix this. I do not want do downgrade my dependencies as that isn't a solution. But this is how I save my download url:

final String download_uri = uploadTask.getResult().getStorage().getDownloadUrl().toString();

And this is how I try to populate it to Glide:

Glide.with(ProfileActivity.this).load(user_image).into(profilePicture);

In firestore, user_image has the value com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzu@d1a2c07

How do I fix this for firestore?

This problem has nothing to do with Cloud Firestore or the Realtime Database, but with how you retrieve the download URL from Firebase Storage. `getDownloadUrl()` nowadays returns a `Task`, so you need to add a listener to that task to wait for its result. The answer by Krishna shows how to do that, but so do many previous questions from [this list](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bfirebase-storage%5D%5Bandroid%5D+getdownloadurl). — Frank van Puffelen, Oct 05 '19 at 13:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '19 at 12:37

In your code user_image takes string representation of Task<Uri> object,

Here's how you can get download url from Cloud Firestore

uploadTask.getResult().getStorage().getDownloadUrl().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Uri>() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Uri> task) {
         String url = String.valueOf(task.getResult()));//gives image or file string url
    }
});

No image from glide in Firestore

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