Java tutorial
/** * Copyright 2011 Marc Meszaros * * 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. */ package ca.marcmeszaros.papyrus.remote; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.os.AsyncTask; import android.util.Log; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.entity.BufferedHttpEntity; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URISyntaxException; import java.net.URL; import java.util.LinkedList; public class DownloadThumbnails extends AsyncTask<URL, Void, LinkedList<Bitmap>> { private static final String TAG = "DownloadThumbnails"; @Override protected LinkedList<Bitmap> doInBackground(URL... urls) { // some class variables HttpGet httpRequest; Bitmap bm; LinkedList<Bitmap> bitmaps = new LinkedList<Bitmap>(); try { // loop through all urls for (URL url : urls) { // create the HTTP request httpRequest = new HttpGet(url.toURI()); // create an HTTP client and get the response HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest); // get a handle on the http entity HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity); InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent(); // read the entity from the stream into a bitmap object bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(instream); // add the bitmap to the list bitmaps.add(bm); } } catch (URISyntaxException e) { Log.e(TAG, "URISyntaxException", e); } catch (ClientProtocolException e) { Log.e(TAG, "ClientProtocolException", e); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e(TAG, "IOException", e); } return bitmaps; } }