Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static Bitmap getBitmapFromURL(String urlString) { Bitmap bitmap = null; InputStream in = null; BufferedOutputStream out = null; try { in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(urlString).openStream(), 1024 * 4); final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream, 1024 * 4); byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; int len = -1; while ((len = in.read(buffer)) != -1) { out.write(buffer, 0, len); } out.flush(); byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray(); bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length); data = null; return bitmap; } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { in.close(); out.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return bitmap; } }