Question

I have a byte array which contains an image fetched from the net. I am lazily loading them on my UI activity (or i am trying to at least 😀 ) using Bitmapfactory, BitmapDrawable and setImageDrawable. here is my code:

RelativeLayout r =(RelativeLayout) adap.getGroupView(Integer.parseInt(groupPos), false, null, null);
ImageView iv = (ImageView) r.findViewById(R.id.imgGruppo);
Log.w("",""+raw_img.length);
Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(raw_img, 0, raw_img.length);
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(bm);
Log.i("","pre setimage"); 
iv.setImageDrawable(drawable);
//added for testing only, with no effects.
//((ELA) Activity_Titoli_2.this.getExpandableListAdapter()).notifyDataSetChanged();
//ELA is my expandable list adapter
Log.i("","post setimage"+bm.getRowBytes()); //just to see that i have actual data in raw_img and such

here is the XML involved

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linearLayoutTitoli2_gruppo"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textNomeGruppo"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:textColor="#FF0000"
        android:padding="14dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"  />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textNoteGruppo"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textNomeGruppo"
        android:paddingLeft="14dp"
        android:paddingRight="14dp"
        android:paddingBottom="7dp"
        android:text="Small Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imgGruppo"
        android:layout_width="50dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:src="@drawable/icon"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

I have added “android:src…” just to check if the imageview is visible, and it is. The only problem is that i cannot change it!
I have tried setImageBitmap, using only the bitmap i created, i tried setimageDrawable creating a BitmapDrawable, but no effects at all. no errors, no nothing.
Please, where is the mistake? thank you

Answer 1

My guess is you’re not doing this in the right thread. You could test this out by calling this code, then rotating the screen (or opening the physical keyboard, if you have one of those phones). This will cause the UI to refresh.

Anyway, what context are you calling this in? Background thread? You’d want to update the UI in the UI thread, or you’ll have to call something like ‘invalidate’ on the View to get it to force a re-draw.