# UrlImageViewHelper

**Repository Path**: mirrors_koush/UrlImageViewHelper

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: UrlImageViewHelper
- **Description**: Android library that sets an ImageView's contents from a url. Manages image downloading, caching, and makes your coffee too.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-25
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-19

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# This library has been deprecated, use ion instead:

http://github.com/koush/ion

## UrlImageViewHelper
UrlImageViewHelper will fill an ImageView with an image that is found at a URL.

### Sample Project

The sample will do a Google Image Search and load/show the results asynchronously.

![](https://raw.github.com/koush/UrlImageViewHelper/master/helper2.png)

### Download

Download [the latest JAR](http://repository.sonatype.org/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=central-proxy&g=com.koushikdutta.urlimageviewhelper&a=urlimageviewhelper&v=LATEST
) or grab via Maven:

```xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.koushikdutta.urlimageviewhelper</groupId>
    <artifactId>urlimageviewhelper</artifactId>
    <version>(insert latest version)</version>
</dependency>
```

### Usage

UrlImageViewHelper will automatically download and manage all the web images and ImageViews.
Duplicate urls will not be loaded into memory twice. Bitmap memory is managed by using
a weak reference hash table, so as soon as the image is no longer used by you,
it will be garbage collected automatically.

Usage is simple:

```java
UrlImageViewHelper.setUrlDrawable(imageView, "http://example.com/image.png");
```


Want a placeholder image while it is being downloaded?

```java
UrlImageViewHelper.setUrlDrawable(imageView, "http://example.com/image.png", R.drawable.placeholder);
```


Don't want to use a placeholder resource, but a drawable instead?

```java
UrlImageViewHelper.setUrlDrawable(imageView, "http://example.com/image.png", drawable);
```


What if you want to preload images for snazzy fast loading?

```java
UrlImageViewHelper.loadUrlDrawable(context, "http://example.com/image.png");
```


What if you only want to cache the images for a minute?

```java
// Note that the 3rd argument "null" is an optional interstitial
// placeholder image.
UrlImageViewHelper.setUrlDrawable(imageView, "http://example.com/image.png", null, 60000);
```

UrlImageViewHelper is pretty smart. It can even load the photo for an Android contact
if given a Contact Content Provider URI.

```java
UrlImageViewHelper.setUrlDrawable(imageView, "content://com.android.contacts/contacts/1115", R.drawable.dummy_contact_photo);
```

### FAQ

**Does it work in list adapters when views are reused? (convertView)**

Yes.


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