How to display image from URL on Android

Question

I want to display image on screen. Image should come from URL, and not drawable.

Code is here:

<ImageView android:id="@+id/ImageView01" android:src = "http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/we/52/21.gif"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></ImageView>

but it gives error at compile time.

How do I display image from URL in Android?

Answer 1

You can directly show image from web without downloading it. Please check the below function . It will show the images from the web into your image view.

public static Drawable LoadImageFromWebOperations(String url) {
    try {
        InputStream is = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent();
        Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src name");
        return d;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return null;
    }
}

then set image to imageview using code in your activity.