Description of the problem: I\'m creating a scrollable list of articles with thumbnails that\'s populated by my SQLite database. In general, it\'s \"workin
An alternate solution is "RemoteImageView" from the ignition open source project.
http://kaeppler.github.com/ignition-docs/ignition-core/apidocs/com/github/ignition/core/widgets/RemoteImageView.html
Effectively, RemoteImageView extends ImageView and does all the fetching/caching for you behind the scenes.
While it doesn't necessarily solve your problem you listed, it might be worth investigating as an alternate solution.
EDIT: I would highly recommend Picasso if you're still in need of a remote image solution. I've replaced RemoteImageView in my applications with Picasso: http://square.github.io/picasso/