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How to get String type in setImageResource method?

My code: holder.icon.setImageResource(current.imageUrl); here the imageUrl is been declared in String. But setImageResource takes only int. Can anyone provide me a solution how to get a string or is there anyother method available for it?

I think u are fetch the image from internet.
private Bitmap getBitMapFromUrl( String imageuri){
HttpURLConnection connection=null;
try {
URL url=new URL(imageuri);
connection= (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.connect();
InputStream is=connection.getInputStream();
Bitmap mybitmap=BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
return mybitmap;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}}
pass the string value and return the bitmap.
holder.icon.setImageBitmap(getBitmapFromUrl());

you are using the "setImageResource" !
it expects a Resource (usually a drawable resource), hence the int requirement.
the download solution suggested by #Mayuri Joshi might fit your needs, if not, please provide more information regarding what it is you are trying to accomplish :)

You have to download the image firstly
public static Bitmap loadBitmap(String url) {
Bitmap bitmap = null;
InputStream in = null;
BufferedOutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream(), IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
//options.inSampleSize = 1;
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length,options);
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "Could not load Bitmap from: " + url);
} finally {
closeStream(in);
closeStream(out);
}
return bitmap;
}
Then use the Imageview.setImageBitmap to set bitmap into the ImageView

Set button background image from url

I was wondering how i set a buttons background image from a URL on android.
The buttons id is blue if you need to know that.
I tried this but it didn't work.
public static Bitmap loadBitmap(String url) {
Bitmap bitmap = null;
InputStream in = null;
BufferedOutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream(), IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
//options.inSampleSize = 1;
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length,options);
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "Could not load Bitmap from: " + url);
} finally {
closeStream(in);
closeStream(out);
}
return bitmap;
}

I used the next code for obtain the bitmap, one important thing is sometimes you can't obtain the InputStream, and that is null, I make 3 attemps if that happens.
public Bitmap generateBitmap(String url){
bitmap_picture = null;
int intentos = 0;
boolean exception = true;
while((exception) && (intentos < 3)){
try {
URL imageURL = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) imageURL.openConnection();
conn.connect();
InputStream bitIs = conn.getInputStream();
if(bitIs != null){
bitmap_picture = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bitIs);
exception = false;
}else{
Log.e("InputStream", "Viene null");
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
exception = true;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
exception = true;
}
intentos++;
}
return bitmap_picture;
}

Don't load the image directly in the UI (main) thread, for it will make the UI freeze while the image is being loaded. Do it in a separate thread instead, for example using an AsyncTask. The AsyncTask will let the image load in its doInBackground() method and then it can be set as the button background image in the onPostExecute() method. See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10868126/2241463

Try this code:
Bitmap bmpbtn = loadBitmap(yoururl);
button1.setImageBitmap(bmpbtn);

Android getting pictures from webservice, how to?

I have an android application that needs to receive several pictures from the webservice.
But how to do this?
In my webservice i'm currently sending only 1 image as a byte[].
public static byte[] GetMapPicture(string SeqIndex)
{
try
{
byte[] maps;
InterventionEntity interventie = new InterventionEntity(long.Parse(SeqIndex));
MyDocumentsCollection files = interventie.Location.MyDocuments;
maps = null;
foreach (MyDocumentsEntity file in files)
{
if (file.SeqDocumentType == (int)LocationDocumentType.GroundPlanDocument && file.File.Filename.EndsWith(".jpg"))
maps = (file.File.File);
}
return maps;
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.Error(String.Format("Map not send, {0}", e));
return null;
}
}
The byte[] is returned from my webservice.
But in my android project the bitmap is not decoded and therefor null.
public Bitmap getPicture(String message, String url, Context context) throws IOException{
HttpClient hc = MySSLSocketFactory.getNewHttpClient();
Log.d(MobileConnectorApplication.APPLICATION_TAG, "NETWORK - Message to send: "+ message);
HttpPost p = new HttpPost(url);
Bitmap picture;
HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(httpParams, threeMinutes );
p.setParams(httpParams);
try{
if (message != null)
p.setEntity(new StringEntity(message, "UTF8"));
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
p.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
HttpContext httpcontext = new BasicHttpContext();
httpcontext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, MobileConnectorApplication.COOKIE_STORE);
try{
HttpResponse resp = hc.execute(p,httpcontext);
InputStream is = resp.getEntity().getContent();
picture = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is); //here is goes wrong
int httpResponsecode = resp.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() ;
checkResponse(url, message, "s", httpResponsecode);
Log.d(MobileConnectorApplication.APPLICATION_TAG, String.format("NETWORK - Response %s", httpResponsecode));
} finally{
}
return picture;
}
Can anyone help me on this?

assuming incomingbytearray is a byte array,
Bitmap bitmapimage = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(incomingbytearray, 0, incomingbytearray.length);
String filepath = "/sdcard/xyz.png";
File imagefile = new File(filepath);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(imagefile);
bitmapimage.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 100, fos);
fos.flush();
fos.close();
This should be fine.
EDIT: input stream to bytearray,
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream(), IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
conversion code from Android: BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray gives pixelated bitmap

Problem with downloading image from URL

I use such code for downloading image from URL:
public static Bitmap downloadImage(String url) {
Bitmap bitmap = null;
InputStream in = null;
BufferedOutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream(), IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length,options);
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, "Could not load Bitmap from: " + url);
} finally {
closeStream(in);
closeStream(out);
}
return bitmap;
}
When I send URL "http://java.sogeti.nl/JavaBlog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android_icon_256.png" it works fine, but when I use "http://www.hospimedica.com/images/stories/articles/article_images/_CC/20110328%20-%20DJB146.gif" it returns me null.
What's wrong with this URL?

Why are you writing your own method to downlaod an image ? Android has inbuilt method to achieve this.. Just use
URL url = new URL("Your url");
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());

Android : Big error while downloading images

I have tried three ways of downloading images. All suggest by members of Stackoverflow .
All the three methods fail to download all the images from the server. Few are downloaded and few are not.
I noticed a thing that each of the method fail to download image from particular position.
That is method 3 always fails to download the first three images. I changed the images but even then , the first three images are not downloaded.
Method 1:
public Bitmap downloadFromUrl( String imageurl )
{
Bitmap bm=null;
String imageUrl = imageurl;
try {
URL url = new URL(imageUrl); //you can write here any link
URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
int current = 0;
while ((current = bis.read()) != -1) {
baf.append((byte) current);
}
bm= BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(baf.toByteArray(), 0, baf.toByteArray().length);
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.d("ImageManager", "Error: " + e);
}
return bm;
}
Here the error i get for missed images is :SKIimagedecoder , the factory returned null.
Method: 2
public static Bitmap loadBitmap(String url)
{
Bitmap bitmap = null;
InputStream in = null;
BufferedOutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream(), 4*1024);
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, 4 * 1024);
int byte_;
while ((byte_ = in.read()) != -1)
out.write(byte_);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
//options.inSampleSize = 1;
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length,options);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
Log.e("","Could not load Bitmap from: " + url);
} finally {
try{
in.close();
out.close();
}catch( IOException e )
{
System.out.println(e);
}
}
return bitmap;
}
The error i get here is same as above.
Method 3:
private Bitmap downloadFile(String fileUrl){
URL bitmapUrl =null;
Bitmap bmImg = null;
try {
bitmapUrl= new URL(fileUrl);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
HttpGet httpRequest = null;
try {
httpRequest = new HttpGet(bitmapUrl.toURI());
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient
.execute(httpRequest);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity);
InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent();
bmImg = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(instream);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
return bmImg;
}
The error i get here is : org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: The target server failed to respond.
please help. It is the only thing stopping me from completing the project.

Take a look at this.. Clearly explained about image download from the Server..Image from Server....

I'm assuming you are downloading the images to display rather than just save on the device. If this is the case, I recommend looking into using Droid-Fu, more specifically WebImageView. You can just pass the URL to the WebImageView and it will load the image as it can, which will avoid having an image fail to load because of the connection timing out, which I'm guessing is the problem you are having.
In XML:
<com.github.droidfu.widgets.WebImageView
android:id="#+id/image"
android:layout_width="70dip"
android:layout_height="70dip"
droidfu:autoLoad="true"
droidfu:progressDrawable="..."
/>
In Code:
WebImageView image = (WebImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.image);
image.setImageUrl(image_url);
image.loadImage();

It's possible that your creation of bitmaps takes time and therefore the connection times out. You could possibly get references to all the inputstreams and then download and create. This is a rough-cut answer, but if the reasoning is right, you can improve on it:
public Bitmap[] downloadFromUrl(String[] imageUrls)
{
Bitmap[] bm = new Bitmap[imageUrls.length];
BufferedInputStream[] bis = new BufferedInputStream[imageUrls.length];
for (int i = 0; i < imageUrls.length; i++)
{
try
{
URL url = new URL(imageUrls[i]); // you can write here any link
URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
bis[i] = new BufferedInputStream(is);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < bis.length; i++)
{
try
{
ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
int current = 0;
while ((current = bis[i].read()) != -1)
{
baf.append((byte) current);
}
bm[i] = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(baf.toByteArray(), 0, baf.toByteArray().length);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return bm;
}