Load image from url

Question

I have an image URL. I want to display an image from this URL in an ImageView but I am unable to do that.

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

The code below show you how to set ImageView from a url string, using RxAndroid. First, add RxAndroid library 2.0

dependencies {
    // RxAndroid
    compile 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.0.0'
    compile 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxjava:2.0.0'

    // Utilities
    compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.5'

}

now use setImageFromUrl to set image.

public void setImageFromUrl(final ImageView imageView, final String urlString) {

    Observable.just(urlString)
        .filter(new Predicate() {
            @Override public boolean test(String url) throws Exception {
                return StringUtils.isNotBlank(url);
            }
        })
        .map(new Function() {
            @Override public Drawable apply(String s) throws Exception {
                URL url = null;
                try {
                    url = new URL(s);
                    return Drawable.createFromStream((InputStream) url.getContent(), "profile");
                } catch (final IOException ex) {
                    return null;
                }
            }
        })
        .filter(new Predicate() {
            @Override public boolean test(Drawable drawable) throws Exception {
                return drawable != null;
            }
        })
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribe(new Consumer() {
            @Override public void accept(Drawable drawable) throws Exception {
                imageView.setImageDrawable(drawable);
            }
        });
}