Using AsyncTask to load Images in ListView

You can send in the ImageView to the task constructor and keep a reference to the image path there. Now at onPostExecute, check if the current tag of the ImageView is the same as the one that you started with. If yes, then set the image. If no, don’t do anything.

However, this means that the image will be downloaded in any case. You’ll just not set the wrong image on the view.

EDIT:
First pass the ImageView to the task constructor:

new LoadImage(imageView).execute()

Then save a reference to the ImageView and image path in LoadImage constructor. It is important to save the path in the constructor and not in doInBackground to ensure that we don’t run into multi threading problems. Then at onPostExecute we check the current path.

class LoadImage extends AsyncTask<Object, Void, Bitmap>{

        private ImageView imv;
        private String path;

        public LoadImage(ImageView imv) {
             this.imv = imv;
             this.path = imv.getTag().toString();
        }

    @Override
    protected Bitmap doInBackground(Object... params) {
        Bitmap bitmap = null;
        File file = new File( 
                Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + path);

        if(file.exists()){
            bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file.getAbsolutePath());
        }

        return bitmap;
    }
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
        if (!imv.getTag().toString().equals(path)) {
               /* The path is not same. This means that this
                  image view is handled by some other async task. 
                  We don't do anything and return. */
               return;
        }

        if(result != null && imv != null){
            imv.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            imv.setImageBitmap(result);
        }else{
            imv.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    }

}