Question

I am into final stage of chat application in android.

I am facing few issues while working with images and web service.

So when i select the image and sent that image to web service i get URL from service. How can i convert that url into image that is in my local folder. I am confused how can i make this working.

I want to display the selected image in list view along with message returned from web service.

Please guide me in this issue. Is there another option to work this issue.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use this method:

public static Bitmap getBitmapFromURL(String src) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL(src);
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url
            .openConnection();
            connection.setDoInput(true);
            connection.connect();
            connection.setReadTimeout(120000);
            InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
            Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
            return myBitmap;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

Here You need to pass the URL of the image to the function and you can set the image as setImageBitmap function.