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vjdhama
vjdhama

Reputation: 5078

Set Background on Root View (Relative Layout) using volley

How would it be possible to set a image background to the root view (Relative layout) using volley from a remote server? Usually a drawable can be set to background using following : 

  RelativeLayout rLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById (R.id.rLayout);
  Resources res = getResources(); //resource handle
  Drawable drawable = res.getDrawable(R.drawable.newImage); 
  rLayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);

But i could not find a way to make drawable out of a image url except a method createFromPath(). I couldn't find how to use volley with it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 965

Answers (1)

Strigger
Strigger

Reputation: 1903

You can get the image from the URL like this:

URL url = new URL(imageUrlString);
Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());

And then apply it to your layout using your code like this:

RelativeLayout rLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById (R.id.rLayout);
Drawable drawable = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), image)
rLayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);

Please note, it's best to do this in an AsyncTask. The first two lines would go in doInBackground() and the last three lines would go in onPostExecute(). This is how I do it but I don't use Volley, I imagine that would be a lot more complex. If you want to use the Volley image caching then this tutorial is for you.

Upvotes: 1

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