no need to re-invent the wheel. There is a class for this in the Droid-Fu library, called WebImageView. Just instantiate it with an image URL, and it will be loaded from the web, and even stored in a managed 2-level cache, for better performance.

Read more on my blog:
http://brainflush.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/droid-fu-part-2-webimageview-and-webgalleryadapter/

The library:
http://github.com/kaeppler/droid-fu

I am very very new in android as well as java programming. I would like to ask how to make it so that it will display an image from a specific hardcoded url directly without onclick event.

location of crashing is
Object content = url.getContent();
plzzz tell me wat to do…….

Thanx in advance
Dhir

What i did is created a timer and in the timer i call a timertask which pulls the image from a url and places it in the imageview. The string which has url is changed dynamically so every time a new url is generated and the image is pulled from that url in the timertask. But the imageview doesnot show anything. It remains blank. I checked the url string and the string is correct.

This only happens when i loop the images. If i call a single image using one imageurl and if i dont loop it using timer or anything else it works fine. So the method that pulls the image is also correct.

Guys i am a complete newbie to andriod so please help if any ideas.

Keep on!