How can I load an image from a url into an android remote view for a widget

Question

I have an image url I parse form json that I want to load into an android widget onto the homescreen. Right now I am trying to do it this way but its wrong:

ImageDownloadTask imageD = new ImageDownloadTask(image);
            views.setImageViewBitmap(R.id.image, imageD.execute(image));

image is a string holding a url to an image that needs to be downloaded and I am trying to set it to R.id.image

I found another stack question and tried this as a result:

views.setBitmap(R.id.image, "setImageBitmap",BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new URL(image).openStream()));

And when I use that nothing in the app loads at all, none of the text views get set.

My third try was this:

 //get beer data
            JSONObject o = new JSONObject(result);
            String name = getName(o);
            String image = getImage(o);
            String abv = getABV(o);
            String ibu = getIBU(o);
            String glass = getGlass(o);
            String beerBreweryName = getBreweryName(o);
            String beerBreweryStyle = getBreweryStyle(o);
            String beerDescription = getDescription(o);

            InputStream in = new java.net.URL(image).openStream();
            Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);



            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerTitle, name);
            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerBreweryName, beerBreweryName);
            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerStyleName, beerBreweryStyle);
            views.setImageViewBitmap(R.id.image, bitmap);

This gave the same result as the last attempt, it would not even set any text views....

Just tried another attempt after one of the answers posted below:

RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(c.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_test);

            //get beer data
            JSONObject o = new JSONObject(result);
            String name = getName(o);
            String imageURL = getImage(o);
            String abv = getABV(o);
            String ibu = getIBU(o);
            String glass = getGlass(o);
            String beerBreweryName = getBreweryName(o);
            String beerBreweryStyle = getBreweryStyle(o);
            String beerDescription = getDescription(o);

            Log.d("widgetImage" , imageURL);
            views.setImageViewUri(R.id.image, Uri.parse(imageURL));

            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerTitle, name);
            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerBreweryName, beerBreweryName);
            views.setTextViewText(R.id.beerStyleName, beerBreweryStyle);




            mgr.updateAppWidget(appWidgetIds, views);

This attempt lets all the text views load, but no image ever shows up.

Answer 1

Got a lot of help from multiple sources for this question. The big problem for me why a bunch of the attempts I tried listed above seemed to lock the widget app and not load anything is because I can not download the image and set it in a UI thread.

To accomplish this I had to move everything to the do in background of my async task and not in the onPostExecute.