Loading remote images

Question

In Android, what is the simplest approach to the following:

1. Load an image from a remote server.
2. Display it in an ImageView.

Answer 1

The easiest way so far is build a simple image retriver:

public Bitmap getRemoteImage(final URL aURL) {
    try {
        final URLConnection conn = aURL.openConnection();
        conn.connect();
        final BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
        final Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);
        bis.close();
        return bm;
    } catch (IOException e) {}
    return null;
}

Then, you just have to supply a URL to the method and it will returns a Bitmap. Then, you will just have to use the setImageBitmap method from ImageView to show the image.