ImageView not refreshing/reflecting changes

Question

I\'m using a photo picker intent to choose an image and write it to an application-private file. Most of my important source code is shown below. Once I press a button and p

Answer 1

ImageView will not redraw if "new" URI is the same like old one. "View.invalidate()" will not work. To "force" update you can do:

public void onResume() {
  super.onResume();
  ImageView myImageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.contact_image);
  if (hasImage) {
    myImageView.setImageDrawable(null); // <--- added to force redraw of ImageView
    myImageView.setImageURI(Uri.fromFile(getFileStreamPath(TEMP_PHOTO_FILE)));
  }
}