How to get an image from the web android

Question

I'm working on news android project using RSS feed, my app now can get title, description, time of news perfectly but I can't get the image it shows me the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException: uriString
at android.net.Uri$StringUri.<init>(Uri.java:464)
at android.net.Uri$StringUri.<init>(Uri.java:454)
at android.net.Uri.parse(Uri.java:426)
at com.example.drmzr.myapplication.MyAdapter.onBindViewHolder(MyAdapter.java:36)
at com.example.drmzr.myapplication.MyAdapter.onBindViewHolder(MyAdapter.java:12)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5453)                                                                                     at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.bindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5486)                                                                                     at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4723)

This is my code (my Article.java) :

public class Article {

    String title,description,date,link,image;

    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }

    public String getImage() {
        return image;
    }

    public void setImage(String image) {
        this.image  = image;
    }


    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public String getDate() {
        return date;
    }

    public void setDate(String date) {
        this.date = date;
    }

    public String getLink() {
        return link;
    }

    public void setLink(String link) {
        this.link = link;
    }
}

This is (my Adapter.java) :

public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyHolder> {

    Context c;
    ArrayList<Article> articles;

    public MyAdapter(Context c, ArrayList<Article> articles) {
        this.c = c;
        this.articles = articles;
    }

    @Override
    public MyHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View v= LayoutInflater.from(c).inflate(R.layout.model,parent,false);
        return new MyHolder(v);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(MyHolder holder, int position) {

        Article article=articles.get(position);

        holder.titleTxt.setText(article.getTitle());
        holder.descTxt.setText(article.getDescription());
        holder.dateTxt.setText(article.getDate());
        holder.gimage.setImageURI(Uri.parse(article.getImage())) ;

    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return articles.size();
    }
}

This the line that contains the error above (holder.gimage.setImageURI(Uri.parse(article.getImage())) ;)

This is (my RSSParser.java) :

public class RSSParser extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Boolean> {

    Context c;
    InputStream is;
    RecyclerView rv;

    ProgressDialog pd;
    ArrayList<Article> articles=new ArrayList<>();

    public RSSParser(Context c, InputStream is, RecyclerView rv) {
        this.c = c;
        this.is = is;
        this.rv = rv;
    }
    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
        pd=new ProgressDialog(c);
        pd.setTitle("Parse data");
        pd.setMessage("Parsing data...Please wait");
        pd.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Boolean doInBackground(Void... params) {
        return this.parseRSS();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean isParsed) {
        super.onPostExecute(isParsed);
        pd.dismiss();
        if(isParsed)
        {
            //Bind
            rv.setAdapter(new MyAdapter(c,articles));

        }else {
            Toast.makeText(c,"Unable To Parse", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }

    private Boolean parseRSS()
    {
        try
        {
            XmlPullParserFactory factory=XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();
            XmlPullParser parser=factory.newPullParser();

            parser.setInput(is, null);
            int event=parser.getEventType();

            String value=null;

            articles.clear();
            Article article=new Article();

            do {
                String name=parser.getName();

                switch (event)
                {
                    case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
                        if(name.equals("item"))
                        {
                            article=new Article();
                        }

                        break;

                    case XmlPullParser.TEXT:
                        value=parser.getText();
                        break;

                    case XmlPullParser.END_TAG:

                        if(name.equals("title"))
                        {
                            article.setTitle(value);

                        }
                        else if(name.equals("description"))
                        {
                            article.setDescription(value);

                        }else if(name.equals("pubDate"))
                        {
                            article.setDate(value);

                        }else if(name.equals("date"))
                        {
                            article.setDate(value);

                        }else if(name.equals("image"))
                        {
                            article.setImage(value) ;

                        }

                        if(name.equals("item"))
                        {
                            articles.add(article);
                        }
                        break;
                }

                event=parser.next();

            }while (event != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT);

            return true;

        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 1

public String getImage() {
    if (description.startsWith("<a ")) {            
        String cleanUrl = description.substring(description.indexOf("src=") + 5, description.indexOf("/>") - 2);
        return cleanUrl;
    } else {
        return image;
    }
 }

Reference answer : https://stackoverflow.com/a/38465145