Android Download Image from Server using PHP and MySQL

August 10, 2017September 4, 2015 by Belal Khan

In the last post we uploaded our image from gallery to our MySQL Database. In this post we will see how we can fetch those uploaded images. If you have not read the last tutorial, then before going through this Android Download Image from Server tutorial you should first check the last tutorial.

Android Upload Image to Server Using PHP MySQL

Android Download Image from MySQL Database

First go to your hosting account. For this tutorial I am using free hosting account by hostinger.
In last tutorial we created two scripts. One for database connection and other one for storing image to database. Now we need to create one more php script that will fetch the uploaded image.
Create a new PHP file. I am creating getImage.php
Copy the following code

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='GET'){

$id = $_GET['id'];

$sql = "select * from images where id = '$id'";

require_once('dbConnect.php');

$r = mysqli_query($con,$sql);

$result = mysqli_fetch_array($r);

header('content-type: image/jpeg');

echo base64_decode($result['image']);

mysqli_close($con);

}else{

echo "Error";

}

Explanation of Code:

As you can see we are receiving the id with Http Get Request. Then we are fetching the particular image string using sql query. Now set content-type as image or jpeg using header function. And finally we just written an echo statement with base64_decode function. This will echo the image string in image format.

Now go ahead:

Upload this file to your hosting account.
Note down the URL for this php script. In my case the URL is – http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/getImage.php

Creating Android Download Image Activity

Now we will create a new Activity. In this activity user will give the image id and we will fetch the image by id.
Right click on layout-> New -> Activity -> Blank Activity (I created ViewImage)
Now a layout xml file and a java file is created (ViewImage.java and activity_view_image.xml)
Come to the layout file. We need to create the following layout.

Use the following code for creating the above layout

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

tools:context="net.simplifiedcoding.imageuploadsample.ViewImage">

<LinearLayout

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content">

<EditText

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_weight="1"

android:id="@+id/editTextId" />

<Button

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="Get Image"

android:id="@+id/buttonGetImage" />

</LinearLayout>

<ImageView

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:id="@+id/imageViewShow" />

</LinearLayout>

Explanation:

We have created a horizontal linear layout inside a vertical linear layout. In horizontal part we have an EditText and a Button. In EditText user is supposed to enter the image id. After entering image id user will press the button and then we will show the fetched image in the ImageView we created.

Go Ahead:

At last tutorial in our main layout we created a View Image button. Now we will add functionality to this button.
So come to your MainActivity.java class
See this code this is the updated code. You need to update your code as shown here.

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package net.simplifiedcoding.imageuploadsample;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.database.Cursor;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.provider.MediaStore;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.util.Base64;

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.Toast;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.HashMap;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

public static final String UPLOAD_URL = "http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/upload.php";

public static final String UPLOAD_KEY = "image";

public static final String TAG = "MY MESSAGE";

private int PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST = 1;

private Button buttonChoose;

private Button buttonUpload;

private Button buttonView;

private ImageView imageView;

private Bitmap bitmap;

private Uri filePath;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

buttonChoose = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonChoose);

buttonUpload = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonUpload);

buttonView = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonViewImage);

imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView);

buttonChoose.setOnClickListener(this);

buttonUpload.setOnClickListener(this);

buttonView.setOnClickListener(this);

}

private void showFileChooser() {

Intent intent = new Intent();

intent.setType("image/*");

intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);

startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select Picture"), PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST);

}

@Override

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

if (requestCode == PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST && resultCode == RESULT_OK && data != null && data.getData() != null) {

filePath = data.getData();

try {

bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(), filePath);

imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

public String getStringImage(Bitmap bmp){

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos);

byte[] imageBytes = baos.toByteArray();

String encodedImage = Base64.encodeToString(imageBytes, Base64.DEFAULT);

return encodedImage;

}

private void uploadImage(){

class UploadImage extends AsyncTask<Bitmap,Void,String>{

ProgressDialog loading;

RequestHandler rh = new RequestHandler();

@Override

protected void onPreExecute() {

super.onPreExecute();

loading = ProgressDialog.show(MainActivity.this, "Uploading...", null,true,true);

}

@Override

protected void onPostExecute(String s) {

super.onPostExecute(s);

loading.dismiss();

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),s,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

@Override

protected String doInBackground(Bitmap... params) {

Bitmap bitmap = params[0];

String uploadImage = getStringImage(bitmap);

HashMap<String,String> data = new HashMap<>();

data.put(UPLOAD_KEY, uploadImage);

String result = rh.sendPostRequest(UPLOAD_URL,data);

return result;

}

UploadImage ui = new UploadImage();

ui.execute(bitmap);

}

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

if (v == buttonChoose) {

showFileChooser();

}

if(v == buttonUpload){

uploadImage();

}

if(v == buttonView){

viewImage();

}

private void viewImage() {

startActivity(new Intent(this, ViewImage.class));

}

Explanation:

This part is same as the last part. We just created a new button to open ImageView activity. We are opening the ImageView activity by using Intent.

Go Ahead:

After updating your MainActivity.java file, when we will tap the view image button, our ViewImage activity will open.
Now finally come to your ViewImage.java file and write the following code

package net.simplifiedcoding.imageuploadsample;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.util.Base64;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.ImageView;

public class ViewImage extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener{

private EditText editTextId;

private Button buttonGetImage;

private ImageView imageView;

private RequestHandler requestHandler;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_view_image);

editTextId = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextId);

buttonGetImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonGetImage);

imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewShow);

requestHandler = new RequestHandler();

buttonGetImage.setOnClickListener(this);

}

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

getImage();

}

Explanation:

We declared the instances of our EditText, ImageView, Button and RequestHandler. In onCreate method we initialized our instances and for button we set the onClickListener which is the current class itself.
In onClick method we wrote a method getImage(). This method will fetch the respective image according to the id given.
Now we need to create the getImage method. See the following code.

getImage()

private void getImage() {

String id = editTextId.getText().toString().trim();

class GetImage extends AsyncTask<String,Void,Bitmap>{

ProgressDialog loading;

@Override

protected void onPreExecute() {

super.onPreExecute();

loading = ProgressDialog.show(ViewImage.this, "Uploading...", null,true,true);

}

@Override

protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap b) {

super.onPostExecute(b);

loading.dismiss();

imageView.setImageBitmap(b);

}

@Override

protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... params) {

String id = params[0];

String add = "http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/getImage.php?id="+id;

URL url = null;

Bitmap image = null;

try {

url = new URL(add);

image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

return image;

}

GetImage gi = new GetImage();

gi.execute(id);

}

Final Code for ViewImage.java

package net.simplifiedcoding.imageuploadsample;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.util.Base64;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

public class ViewImage extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener{

private EditText editTextId;

private Button buttonGetImage;

private ImageView imageView;

private RequestHandler requestHandler;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_view_image);

editTextId = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextId);

buttonGetImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonGetImage);

imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewShow);

requestHandler = new RequestHandler();

buttonGetImage.setOnClickListener(this);

}

private void getImage() {

String id = editTextId.getText().toString().trim();

class GetImage extends AsyncTask<String,Void,Bitmap>{

ProgressDialog loading;

@Override

protected void onPreExecute() {

super.onPreExecute();

loading = ProgressDialog.show(ViewImage.this, "Uploading...", null,true,true);

}

@Override

protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap b) {

super.onPostExecute(b);

loading.dismiss();

imageView.setImageBitmap(b);

}

@Override

protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... params) {

String id = params[0];

String add = "http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/getImage.php?id="+id;

URL url = null;

Bitmap image = null;

try {

url = new URL(add);

image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream());

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

return image;

}

GetImage gi = new GetImage();

gi.execute(id);

}

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

getImage();

}

Now thats it for Android Download Image tutorial.
You can also download the source code of Android Download Image App from the link given below.

[easy_media_download url=”https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/7eg2d1zq5brev1y/android-upload-image-to-server.zip?dl=0″ text=”Download Source”]

Video Demo of Android Download Image from MySQL Database

So thats it for this tutorial friends. If you are having any confusion for this Android Download Image Tutorial feel free to leave your comments. Thank You 🙂

Belal Khan

Hi, my name is Belal Khan and I am a Google Developers Expert (GDE) for Android. The passion of teaching made me create this blog. If you are an Android Developer, or you are learning about Android Development, then I can help you a lot with Simplified Coding.

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91 thoughts on “Android Download Image from Server using PHP and MySQL”

Mohamad Arafat
September 7, 2015 at 2:30 am
Hi Belal Khan,
How to view all the images in my mysql database rather than search for the id?
Can you help me?
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- Belal Khan
  September 7, 2015 at 3:02 am
  Stay tuned.. and I will post another tutorial showing how to fetch all the images from server at once 🙂
  Reply
  - Mohamad Arafat
    September 10, 2015 at 2:35 am
    Thank you so much Belal :).
    Reply
    - Belal Khan
      September 10, 2015 at 1:25 pm
      check this out
      http://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-programming-tutorial-to-get-all-images-from-server/
      Reply
  - Sumanth
    November 10, 2016 at 12:19 am
    Hello bilal,
    I am having database in wamp server
    When i upload from emulator it is working fine but when when i run it on my phone and give upload it is not working please help me to resolve this
    Reply
cw fei
October 5, 2015 at 6:59 am
Hi Belal Khan, I try my way to retrieve image file and store them into array along with other data type such as name, username, etc and parse them to JSON, my JSON now contains base64 string image, is this a good practice? MY JSON looks like this {“id”:”1,”name”:”cw fei”,”image”:/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDABsSFBcUERsXFhceHBsgKEIrKCUlKFE6PTBCYFVlZF9VXVtqeJmBanGQc1tdhbWGkJ6jq62rZ4C8ybqmx5moq6T/2wBDARweHigjKE4rK06kbl1upKSkpKSkpKSkpKSkpKSkpKSkpKSkp…..”}
I found it will be lag if obtain multiple images at once, so should I follow your way to obtain image one by one?
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- Belal Khan
  October 8, 2015 at 2:25 am
  Yeah your method will work slower..
  Reply
  - jerome
    January 12, 2016 at 12:09 am
    belai can i get the php file
    Reply
Monica
October 23, 2015 at 6:55 am
Hi Belal ,this tutorial helps me a lot.
How to upload multiple images to server ?
Reply
- Belal Khan
  October 23, 2015 at 8:37 am
  I will try to post a tutorial for this 🙂
  Reply
Rudi
October 23, 2015 at 8:27 am
Hello,
I have followed your tutorial here is my problem when i enter a id number in the search field then nothing happend,
i have stored a picture in my database (LONGBLOB).
can you please help me..
i will gladly email you my code
Reply
- Belal Khan
  October 23, 2015 at 8:38 am
  You are surely doing something wrong.. follow my code carefully.. it should work..
  Reply
  - Rudi
    October 23, 2015 at 8:52 am
    Hello again,
    your a probably right, but i dont get any error.
    can i sendt your my code ?
    my databse is set op like this
    the table name is : images
    and i got 2 collums named id AI PRI and image LONGBLOB
    Reply
    - Belal Khan
      October 23, 2015 at 8:55 am
      Connect with me on facebook.com/probelalkhan
      Reply
      - Rudi
        October 23, 2015 at 9:02 am
        i dont have facebook sorry 🙁
        i do have linkdin
      - Rudi
        October 23, 2015 at 9:06 am
        i also have Skype
Rudi
October 23, 2015 at 8:58 am
i dont have facebook sorry 🙁
i do have linkdin
Reply
- Belal Khan
  October 23, 2015 at 9:10 am
  Thats strange 😛 google.com/+BelalKhan
  Or come to gtalk probelalkhan@gmail.com
  Reply
  - Rudi
    October 23, 2015 at 9:26 am
    How do i save the project so i can sendt it to you ?
    Reply
    - Rudi
      October 23, 2015 at 9:32 am
      i have sendt you a email
      Reply
      - Ruddi
        October 23, 2015 at 10:51 am
        Your comment is awaiting moderation.
        Hello Again,
        i found out what the problem whas,
        when i uploaded from the app then the search field Works, but if i upload image directly from MYSQL then it does not Work.
        can you please tell me how i can create onclik on the image and then get a POPUP box there will show data from MYSQL database ?
  - Ruddi
    October 23, 2015 at 1:08 pm
    Hey,
    is it possible that you can upload a tutorial where the user can clik on the image that is fetched from MYSQL and get a popup box
    Reply
Ruddi
October 23, 2015 at 10:43 am
Hello Again,
i found out what the problem whas,
when i uploaded from the app then the search field Works, but if i upload image directly from MYSQL then it does not Work.
can you please tell me how i can create onclik on the image and then get a POPUP box there will show data from MYSQL database ?
Reply
Vinita
October 26, 2015 at 2:01 pm
I have stored the name of image in database and uploaded the image on web server so how do I get the lnik of image to display in the application
Reply
- Belal Khan
  October 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm
  http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/getImage.php?id=1
  http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/ImageUpload/getImage.php?id=2
  These are the URLs for your images stored in db. Because the images are stored in blob format you cannot have a direct path to the file.
  Reply
  - Vinita
    October 26, 2015 at 2:32 pm
    I have stored the link not the images that’s the problem..And I don’t have that much time to change everything.My images are stored on biz.nf web hosting server and my database is also stored on it.I want to know what link should I store in database to fetch images from the server.
    Reply
    - Belal Khan
      October 26, 2015 at 2:58 pm
      You have to store the actual path to your images in your database.. You can see this tutorial
      http://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-upload-image-using-php-mysql-android-studio/
      Reply
      - veerchandra sircar
        March 15, 2016 at 11:11 am
        Hi Belal bro
        I am also following your code for uploading and downloading the image from server.I have done uploading successfully but i want download that image also but downloading is not happening. pls if possible help me.
dara
November 6, 2015 at 1:55 pm
I copied all your code for image uploading to server and also same table with same names but it does not work.O am using xamp as server.server. Plz suggest me what to do i have an important project for which image uploading is a part.it is due soon.
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sikandar
December 3, 2015 at 5:36 am
hi sir
i have json data with image
{“Response”:[{“name”:”raj”,”mobile”:”9931675657″,”image”:”image\/computer.jpg”},{“name”:”raj”,”mobile”:”8251843109″,”image”:”image\/ecbranch.jpg”},{“name”:”raj”,”mobile”:”9534979772″,”image”:”image\/bbb.png”}]}
and i want to fetch data with image by giving name and show in listview . plse sir help me how can i do this or post the code for this
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- Belal Khan
  December 3, 2015 at 7:20 am
  Check this tutorial
  https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-custom-listview-with-images-using-recyclerview-and-volley/
  this will fulfil your requirements (y)
  Reply
Subham Tripathi
December 20, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Bhai i can’t understand the error like ( RequestHandler can not be resolved ) please help me..
Reply
- Belal Khan
  December 20, 2015 at 2:12 pm
  You have to check the previous tutorial about uploading images
  https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-upload-image-to-server-using-php-mysql/
  Reply
SUMIT KUMAR
January 4, 2016 at 6:55 pm
how to store some images on mysql database manually and then fetching it and displaying it in a grid view in android studio? please give me some tutorials or code.
Reply
- SUMIT KUMAR
  January 5, 2016 at 6:48 pm
  Please reply
  Reply
Pfil
January 10, 2016 at 6:14 pm
how do u upload and display image in app with one button
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Harsh Dalwadi
January 12, 2016 at 5:56 am
Hey..
I have problem .
I can’t retrieve image from server .
I debug my code in that I can’t receive any image . In that i receive null .
please help me out .
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- JiYun
  February 23, 2016 at 12:45 pm
  hey.. I experienced same problem…
  It did solved??
  Reply
  - AndiHong
    March 14, 2016 at 2:49 am
    yes, i got null too,
    is there any problem about the code ? thanks if you can help me.. 😀
    Reply
Aspiring Programmer
January 16, 2016 at 11:27 am
Hi sir, i want to see only the codes for fetching images just like what I have watched in your demonstration in youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQ2iORxl-k
I would take this as a grateful gratitude if you grant my request. This will help me a lot. Thanks. 🙂
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sameer hussain
January 20, 2016 at 2:18 pm
hey how to fetch a numbers of image at once.. how to passs the array of image object from php.. please help me
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Rashmi
February 1, 2016 at 10:34 am
how to fetch image with text in gridview? from server with php.
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christian saberon
February 20, 2016 at 1:34 pm
hey ilove you tutorial, can you create an application in android that display image in mysql and populate list view with it
Reply
Nick
February 21, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Hi,
I am getting FileNotFound exception.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://192.168.0.13:8888/android/include/GetImage.php?id=a.b.c
02-21 13:35:24.549 13763-13888/app W/System.err: at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:210)
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dipali
March 10, 2016 at 8:12 am
Image is successfully uploaded and also stored in database but not displayed in upload folder, what can i do?
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- AndiHong
  March 14, 2016 at 3:02 am
  return null right ? same problem with me. 😀
  Reply
ekhlas moahmed
March 18, 2016 at 9:38 am
php mysql error
MySQL said: Documentation
#2006 – MySQL server has gone away
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Mariëlle
March 26, 2016 at 9:22 am
Is it possible to click on an item XYZ of the listViewItem not to see the item XYZ in more detail, but to connect to another mysql-table so to show in a new listview all the rows referring to the item XYZ?
I’ve succesfully applied your instructions to create the first customlistview (Demand), and the second listview (Supplies). Both display correctly starting from the MainActivity, but I cannot start the second clicking on an item of the first.
Thank you for your reply
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Shilpa
April 12, 2016 at 12:27 pm
Uploading is working fine,but when i enter id to view image I am not getting image.I have followed your tutorial , my problem when i enter id in the search field then n I am not getting image,
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- shashi
  June 28, 2016 at 6:58 am
  did u got solution?? me too facing same prblem
  Reply
  - Aditya Shirke
    March 11, 2017 at 7:00 pm
    Same Problem
    Reply
manikandan
May 24, 2016 at 5:59 am
how can show multiple images where store in mysql database to grid view in android
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Nikki
May 26, 2016 at 6:51 am
hey !! First I tried to upload image using your code and it worked great but now when I am trying to fetch the image using your code its not working . It is not showing any error but i am not getting the image on imageview, plzz help me ..
thanks in advance
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Ratheesh
June 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm
i got this error in my project
— SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null
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bob
June 8, 2016 at 9:01 am
the uploading part works fine but im not able to view images back from the server. i tried debugging . the doinbackground method returns null in the image.
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Mario
June 10, 2016 at 6:49 pm
Hi Belal Khan, Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, I have a question I want the button is in an activity and that giving click send him to another activity in which the image is displayed. your collaboration? Thanks.
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kalyani
June 22, 2016 at 6:56 am
Hello sir.. I have a doubt regarding displaying image in android app based on range of data stored in a table. I mean we have to display different image for different range of data in table. Iam using Android Version 5.0 and Wamp server for database connectivity. Please clarify my doubt. Thanks in advance.
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shashi
June 28, 2016 at 6:56 am
belal as people saying me too unable to view image in imageview solve the problem please…. thank u
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shashi
June 28, 2016 at 7:47 am
i got image from server successfully… you guyz need to hit the image url with id…. if anyone need the solution mail me your email id i will send you directly…..
patilshashi43@gmail.com
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- Praveen
  December 7, 2016 at 7:50 am
  Hi shashi, I am facing the same problem. Can you guide me in clearing this problem. my mail id is praveen.prvn0921@gmail.com
  Reply
- Imtiaz Riad
  June 21, 2020 at 11:50 am
  imtiazriad793@gmail.com is my email. Can you send me the solution of this problem?
  Reply
srini
July 21, 2016 at 7:21 am
How to upload the at time upload the multiple image in php server please help me..
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Jose
July 26, 2016 at 8:17 am
i got this ….thnks ..
is it possible to show this image to a button and image button also
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Jose
July 26, 2016 at 8:23 am
i got this …thanks…
is it possible to view this image to a button or imagebutton
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Vaibhav
September 21, 2016 at 12:44 pm
Hello,
I m Vaibhav. I have successfully uploaded some* images and fetched also. But when i try to upload an image with size of only 65KB or even higher ex. 252KB it is uploading it successfully but it is not fetching those images. Moreover when i choose these images from gallery i even don’t get preview for it. I have also experimented changing the blob with other types such as longblob, mediumblob but it is not helping. Sometimes the app is crashing when trying to upload an image with size of 400KB. Please help on this.
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widi
September 24, 2016 at 7:37 am
i got some error in this project
/skia: — SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null
how i can solve this problem?
Reply
ws
October 4, 2016 at 1:46 am
Hi, may i know is that “http….?id+”+id this url is only works for the image that you uploaded to server, but what if you input that image directly to mysql database, what is the way to retrieve it? Any help will be appreciated.
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Marco
October 13, 2016 at 10:42 am
Hi, good tutorial….but i need to store in db and download drom db songs…can you help me,please?
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Mk
January 6, 2017 at 5:45 pm
facing this Error man .. please help me.
Error : – SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null
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shraddha
January 21, 2017 at 11:31 am
hello ,
how to retrieve images along with text and show them in listview
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- shashikant
  January 21, 2017 at 12:06 pm
  get it from json and set to the listview
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siva
February 10, 2017 at 7:20 am
hiii Belal Khan, i use this code but the image does not shown it shows the ERROR SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null I don’t no why
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- kalaivani
  March 1, 2017 at 10:32 am
  hi everyone!!! i have the same problem plz help me
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Denis
March 6, 2017 at 9:13 am
I think u dont need to set the header in the php since we are echoing the image as a base64 string.This was causing me problems in my retrieval of the image
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- Denis
  March 7, 2017 at 7:16 am
  My bad mistook the decode function for encode
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Udit Singh
April 2, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Solution: for those where none error comes,in my case i change my image type in table of database from BLOB to Large Blob.If it helps please reply
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Painter
April 18, 2017 at 6:29 am
for those image return null:
//call a function to get “echo [‘image’] (base64 raw data)”
BufferedReader bufReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, “utf-8”), 8);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = bufReader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(line + “\n”);
}
inputStream.close();
result = builder.toString();
return result;
//after return result
byte[] decodestring = Base64.decode(returned result, Base64.DEFAULT);
image = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(decodestring, 0, decodestring.length);
at least I solved it.
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mark
April 29, 2017 at 3:15 pm
hi, i have a problem of view image, I cant view the image, it return null, how to solve it?
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droid
May 4, 2017 at 6:42 pm
You have made great series but in my case image should be fetched when the app starts and can also be display offline without downloading, it is user based app. Image should be displayed in grid view and also be swipe using some page curl view /flip view.
Please recommend me some from how to implement it.
Thank you
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Stanley Liem
May 13, 2017 at 12:07 pm
image = null ?
delete this header code from php file.
====header(‘content-type: image/jpeg’);=====
i dont understand why your tutorial always have bug and we cant download the project in your link (badlink).
if everything running well i think this is can be the best and simple tutorial for begginer.
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anand kumbe
May 16, 2017 at 7:15 am
in database change image datatype blob to long bob…. after that insert new image by app… after this retrieve a image easily… it does not show null..
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Aman
May 31, 2017 at 12:21 pm
The uploading part executed successfully. But while performing the fetching part i got thus error
“D/skia: — decoder->decode returned false”
Please help me with it
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Chandrabhan Aher
June 13, 2017 at 12:30 pm
do not get image because , do not call in Request Handler in sendGetRequest function into ViewImage class
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rakshit
June 16, 2017 at 6:03 pm
uploading is working great but while fetching i can’t see any image and there are no errors.
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Korede
July 11, 2017 at 7:27 am
i also have the same problem here, when upload the image into database it work fine but when trying to download the image it give no error and the image is not display.your tutorial is perfect if you can help to correct this error.
thanks
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rahul kumar
July 11, 2017 at 12:01 pm
how to download source code
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Aditya
September 5, 2017 at 8:22 am
Sir in this video my error is coming of request handler because you have not created that class so please help me
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Aman Adarsh
August 15, 2018 at 6:09 am
How to use these images fetched from server in my image slider ?
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Jayaraj
April 4, 2019 at 6:43 am
Hello Sir I want code to upload a picture to profile just like whatsapp profile dp.
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Tirth
April 7, 2022 at 9:03 pm
I am getting null in bitmap variable
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latestmodapks
October 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm
This is a great tutorial! I’m new to PHP and MySQL, but I’m following along just fine. Thanks for the help!
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