Android - Images from Assets folder in a GridView

Question

I have been working on creating a Grid View of images, with images being present in the Assets folder. Opening a File from assets folder in android link helped me with using

Answer 1

No need to read all the items every time. Read only the item at the position given in getView method call. And display only that item that time.

BufferedInputStream buf = new BufferedInputStream(am.open(list[position]));

Answer 2

Saran, below is what I use to show images in the assets folder with the gallery. I imagine it's the same deal with a gridview:

public class myActivitye extends Activity
{
    private Gallery mGallery;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        mGallery = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.mygalleryinxml);

        //load images into memory
        mBitArray = new Bitmap[4];
        try
        {
            //these images are stored in the root of "assets"
            mBitArray[0] = getBitmapFromAsset("pic1.png");
            mBitArray[1] = getBitmapFromAsset("pic2.png");
            mBitArray[2] = getBitmapFromAsset("pic3.png");
            mBitArray[3] = getBitmapFromAsset("pic4.png");
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        mGallery.setAdapter(new GalleryAdapter(this, mBitArray));
    }

    public class GalleryAdapter extends BaseAdapter
    {
        //member variables
        private Context mContext;
        private Bitmap[] mImageArray;

        //constructor
        public GalleryAdapter(Context context, Bitmap[] imgArray)
        {
            mContext = context;
            mImageArray = imgArray;
        }

        public int getCount()
        {
            return mImageArray.length;
        }

        public Object getItem(int position)
        {
            return position;
        }

        public long getItemId(int position)
        {
            return position;
        }

        //returns the individual images to the widget as it requires them
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {
            final ImageView imgView = new ImageView(mContext);

            imgView.setImageBitmap(mImageArray[position]);

            //put black borders around the image
            final RelativeLayout borderImg = new RelativeLayout(mContext);
            borderImg.setPadding(20, 20, 20, 20);
            borderImg.setBackgroundColor(0xff000000);//black
            borderImg.addView(imgView);
            return borderImg;
        }

    }//end of: class GalleryAdapter


    /**
     * Helper Functions
     * @throws IOException 
     */
    private Bitmap getBitmapFromAsset(String strName) throws IOException
    {
        AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();

        InputStream istr = assetManager.open(strName);
        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(istr);
        istr.close();

        return bitmap;
    }
}