Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import android.content.ContentResolver; import android.content.Context; import android.net.Uri; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; public class Main { /** * Acquires input stream for the image resource identified by uri. * * This is a long-running I/O operation that must run in a background thread. * * @param context * @param uri * @return * @throws IOException */ public static InputStream getInputStream(Context context, Uri uri) throws IOException { if (uri.getScheme().contentEquals(ContentResolver.SCHEME_CONTENT)) { return context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri); } else { return (InputStream) new URL(uri.toString()).getContent(); } } }