Question

I’m new to programming so bear with me, this is a big learning experience for me, and it’s been a lot of fun so far.

What I’m trying to do is to load an image into my app that I change and upload to my server on a regular basis. Right now, it loads a placement image until the proper image is finished downloading in the background, then shows the new image that it’s downloaded.

My problem is that if there is no network connection, it ends up showing nothing at all. I’m assuming that there’s something I can do in PostExecute that would show a drawable from within the app if it fails to load the image from the net, I’m just not sure how to do it!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Am I on the right track to displaying an alternate image?

import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class ImageDownloader extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Bitmap> {

private String url;
private final WeakReference<ImageView> imageViewReference;
private Resources res;

public ImageDownloader(ImageView imageView) {
    imageViewReference = new WeakReference<ImageView>(imageView);
}


@Override
protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... params) {
    url = params[0];        
    try {
        return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new URL(url).openConnection()
                .getInputStream());
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    } catch (IOException e) {


      return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, R.drawable.displayThis);

        }
}


@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
    if (isCancelled()) {
        result = null;
    }
    if (imageViewReference != null) {
        ImageView imageView = imageViewReference.get();
        if (imageView != null) {
            imageView.setImageBitmap(result);
        } 
    } 
}

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
    if (imageViewReference != null) {
        ImageView imageView = imageViewReference.get();
        if (imageView != null) {
            imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.uboxback);
        }
    }
}
}

Answer 1

If you get null as a return value from you doInBackground function can you not just display another image?
Also you could always check if there is a network connection available before trying to do any of it and do something at that point?

You can check if a network connection is available by doing something similar to the following:

ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) ctx.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo netInfo = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
        if (netInfo != null && netInfo.isConnected()) {
//this is connected
    }

Does this help at all?

Bex