Load Image from URL in Android

Once I needed to display an image loading from URL in my Android application. After referring some resources I was success. Here I post what I did. This is for future references. I did this for Android 2.2 platform.

This Android application load an image from a server using HttpURLConnection and show it in image view when you click load image button.
(I have used  image located here http://www.codeincloud.tk/play.png)

 

Here is the layout file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AbsoluteLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_imgload"
        android:layout_width="208dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_x="57dp"
        android:layout_y="322dp"
        android:text="Load Image" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageview"
        android:layout_width="60dp"
        android:layout_height="60dp"
        android:layout_x="131dp"
        android:layout_y="179dp" />

</AbsoluteLayout>

This is the java code

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class LoadImageActivity extends Activity {
 
 ImageView image_view;
 Button btnLoadImg ;
    final static String imageLocation="http://www.codeincloud.tk/play.png"; //Use any image location. 
    
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        
        image_view = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageview);
        btnLoadImg = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_imgload);
        
        btnLoadImg.setOnClickListener(loadImage);
    }
    
    
    View.OnClickListener loadImage = new View.OnClickListener(){
     public void onClick(View view) {
         loadImage(imageLocation);
            }
     };
    
     Bitmap bitmap;
    void loadImage(String image_location){
      
          URL imageURL = null;
          
          try {
           imageURL = new URL(image_location);
           } 
          
          catch (MalformedURLException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
           }
          
          try {
           HttpURLConnection connection= (HttpURLConnection)imageURL.openConnection();
           connection.setDoInput(true);
           connection.connect();
              InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
               
              bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream);//Convert to bitmap
              image_view.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
          }
          catch (IOException e) {
              
               e.printStackTrace();
          }
    }
  }

Add internet permission to Manifest file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="tutorial.imageload"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <activity
            android:name=".LoadImageActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

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