So, I spent like a day pulling my hair out trying to load images from the web into an Android list view.  Should be fairly straight forward right?  I finally gave up and moved on to other screens to discover the same code worked on another screen!  Something must be different here, I was thinking.  The image sizes I’m downloading are smaller in the one that works.  Maybe that has something do with it.

After some more searching I finally discovered this:

Note: a bug in the previous versions of BitmapFactory.decodeStream may prevent this code from working over a slow connection. Decode a new FlushedInputStream(inputStream) instead to fix the problem. Here is the implementation of this helper class:

The FlushedInputStream fixed everything! It was an Android bug, damnit.

So, the lesson of the day seems to be: Give Up!

7:59 pm  •  19 August 2010  •  view comments