Load image from url

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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. 🙂

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