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Haji
Haji

Reputation: 17

Displaying images on running website on android mobile application

I have a running website where i have images of products uploaded in a directory and the respective images name in mysql database. Now, i have my mobile application (android) connected to my running website database through an API that does the communication.

Technology used for my application development

1. Android Studio (IDE)
2. Retrofit for communication with the Slim
3. Slim for the API
4. Mysql for storage

ISSUES

  1. Product upload is only allowed on the website.

  2. How can i have access to the product images in the image folder of my running website to be displayed on my android app through the API. Am only having access to the image name which was stored in the database after product upload on my website.

  3. Am i to have the whole image content uploaded in database using BLOB when uploading product on my running website.

Please, kindly assist me in resolving this. THANK YOU.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Basil jose
Basil jose

Reputation: 779

You don't want to store an image in the database as BLOB, now you are getting the file name using the API and you know the file stores server path, then you can achieve those images like this.

Here am using picasso image library to set your images to ImageView in android , you can use different tricks to set image. 

String filename = "yourProductImageName.png" //this is the filename you get from api
String filepath = "https://yourDomin.com/imagesdirectory/" + filename;

Picasso.get().load(filepath).into(imageView);

Upvotes: 2

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