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pdf view in gridview android

I would like to ask advise if displaying pdf inside gridview instead of image is possible. I have tried to display list of websites in gridview using webview. Now, I want to make it a list of pdf files inside gridview. Normally same with if you open your folder in your linux laptop and have the thumbnails of your pdf, things like that. I want to achieve that in my application. I would really appreciate any of your advice, no codes needed cause i will handle it my self. I just want to have some theories. thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS

I think what you're going to have to is convert the pdf's into a bitmap first, then load into an ImageView, check out this post and also look into other pdf rendering libraries for Android.

Android best way to retrieve images and view them from external source

I'm going to be making a wallpaper app but need some guidance on how I am going to be able to store, retrieve and view the wallpapers.
Will I need to make use of ImageView so I will be able to display the images?
I'm going to need some sort of database/website to store all of the wallpapers on. What would be the best thing to do, use a database or a website?
How would I go about retrieving the wallpapers from my chosen source?
Any help/advice would be appreciated, thanks.

A common practice is to use an rss feed of images. Then, just hook up your app to the rss feed and have it check for updates periodically.
Here is a reference on reading xml (rss) in Android:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/x-android/index.html
Good luck.

you can try aquery android library for lazy loading image. this library store images in cache memory so you not need to store it externally also it will take some time for first time loading image from web but once it load in your application then it will automatically store in cache so second time take very less time to display also its less time consuming then other lazzy loading methods..below code may help you.....
AQuery aq = new AQuery(mContext);
aq.id(R.id.image1).image("http://data.whicdn.com/images/63995806/original.jpg");
You can download library from from this link

Personally I would use a database. But the easiest option would be to use the 'res/drawable' folder in android I guess.
If you stored them on the internet and haven't got connectivity, you can't get your images, so users won't necessarily like this.
To get at them from a database you'll likely have to know some SQL or know someone who knows a bit of SQL. The advantage of storing them in a database would be that it's one neat package and it is portable.
Don't worry about using ImageView it, you just need to get the image from the source (database /filesystem etc..) and give it to the imageView

(beginner) How do I load images off of a site via main url address with lazy list?

I'm trying to find a way to load all of the images off of sites main page(that uses an image slider) into an imageview/listview(much like the damnlol app). On my last question I asked a similar question and never got an answer I could actually use. I was told to use lazylist and use something from this question Lazy load of images in ListView , But I have absolutely no idea how to implement ether of those things as I am completely new to android programming. I cant be given a random piece of code and know what to do with it.

Try following these links:
Lazy loading images from urls to listviews
Whats lazylist
Android development tutorial: Asynchronous lazy-loading and caching of listview images
After these you can return here and ask questions that have risen from trial and error with CODE EXAMPLES.

Display image using a RSS feed

I have an application in which use a RSS feed reader. My problem is that I don't know what is the best way to display an image. The closer I could get was to pull the image description (). I know I could parse this String by myself and get the image url, but I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to solve this issue. I tried using the SAX and the DOM classes, but I couldn't figure it out.

Best way to DISPLAY the image? I'm not sure if that's actually what you're asking, but just use an ImageView. Use an AsyncTask to download the image in the background, and then create a new Drawable from that downloaded image (might even want to cache it to storage) and set that as the source for the ImageView.

there is a library for downloading and caching images in background from the URL
https://github.com/koush/UrlImageViewHelperSample
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Are you asking how to get the image URL from the XML RSS feed? There's nothing built into the SDK that's going to help you parse the XML, other than SAX or DOM which you have already noted. There is a learning curve to those, but they are reasonable approaches.
There's a project called ROME that is an API for robustly parsing all sorts of feeds, including RSS. You could import this library into your android app. Note that this library has other dependencies, so you'd have to import them also. I haven't done it personally, but I have heard of people using ROME in Android apps, so it's doable.
Or more simply, if you just want the image URL and you don't need a complete feed parser, you can use java.util.regex to parse out the fields you want.
If you are asking how to display the image after you have the URL, kcoppock's answer explains it.

Android Dev.: How to populate gallery by image URL?

I'm trying to build a gallery where the images within will be pulled from the images URL from a website. i.e. Instead of doing R.drawable.xxxx.jpg, you use a url to represent the image.
Is this possible? If so, can you show me an example in code?
Thanks

this might be old post, but hey this library from github might be helpful
Android Image Loader
Also, on Application class, set the option to MaxPriority for better outcome.
Cheers,
Hope this helps...