Android – Loading Images With Picasso From The Internal Storage

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I saved a few JPEG images into the phones storage and I want to load the using picasso into an ImageView. I'm having trouble with it though, whatever I try I just can't load the image, the ImageView end up being blank.

Here's how I save and retrieve the images:

 private void saveImage(Context context, String name, Bitmap bitmap){
    name=name+".JPG";
    FileOutputStream out;
    try {
        out = context.openFileOutput(name, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 80, out);
        out.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}


private Bitmap getSavedImage(Context context, String name){
    name=name+".JPG";
    try{
        FileInputStream fis = context.openFileInput(name);
        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis);
        fis.close();
        return bitmap;
    }
    catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}

As you can see the returned image is a bitmap, how can I load it into a imageview using picasso?
I know I can load the bitmap into an image like this:

imageView.setImageBitmap(getSavedImage(this,user.username+"_Profile"));

But I have a class which using picasso rounds up the image(users profile photo) so I need to load it with picasso.

Best Answer

First of all, obtain the path of the image to be loaded. Then, you can use

Picasso.with(context).load(new File(path)).into(imageView);

to load the image into an ImageView.

Read all text from a file

Java 11 added the readString() method to read small files as a String, preserving line terminators:

String content = Files.readString(path, StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);

For versions between Java 7 and 11, here's a compact, robust idiom, wrapped up in a utility method:

static String readFile(String path, Charset encoding)
  throws IOException
{
  byte[] encoded = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(path));
  return new String(encoded, encoding);
}

Read lines of text from a file

Java 7 added a convenience method to read a file as lines of text, represented as a List<String>. This approach is "lossy" because the line separators are stripped from the end of each line.

List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(path), encoding);

Java 8 added the Files.lines() method to produce a Stream<String>. Again, this method is lossy because line separators are stripped. If an IOException is encountered while reading the file, it is wrapped in an UncheckedIOException, since Stream doesn't accept lambdas that throw checked exceptions.

try (Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(path, encoding)) {
  lines.forEach(System.out::println);
}

This Stream does need a close() call; this is poorly documented on the API, and I suspect many people don't even notice Stream has a close() method. Be sure to use an ARM-block as shown.

If you are working with a source other than a file, you can use the lines() method in BufferedReader instead.

Memory utilization

The first method, that preserves line breaks, can temporarily require memory several times the size of the file, because for a short time the raw file contents (a byte array), and the decoded characters (each of which is 16 bits even if encoded as 8 bits in the file) reside in memory at once. It is safest to apply to files that you know to be small relative to the available memory.

The second method, reading lines, is usually more memory efficient, because the input byte buffer for decoding doesn't need to contain the entire file. However, it's still not suitable for files that are very large relative to available memory.

For reading large files, you need a different design for your program, one that reads a chunk of text from a stream, processes it, and then moves on to the next, reusing the same fixed-sized memory block. Here, "large" depends on the computer specs. Nowadays, this threshold might be many gigabytes of RAM. The third method, using a Stream<String> is one way to do this, if your input "records" happen to be individual lines. (Using the readLine() method of BufferedReader is the procedural equivalent to this approach.)

Character encoding

One thing that is missing from the sample in the original post is the character encoding. There are some special cases where the platform default is what you want, but they are rare, and you should be able justify your choice.

The StandardCharsets class defines some constants for the encodings required of all Java runtimes:

String content = readFile("test.txt", StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

The platform default is available from the Charset class itself:

String content = readFile("test.txt", Charset.defaultCharset());

Note: This answer largely replaces my Java 6 version. The utility of Java 7 safely simplifies the code, and the old answer, which used a mapped byte buffer, prevented the file that was read from being deleted until the mapped buffer was garbage collected. You can view the old version via the "edited" link on this answer.

Android – Create a file from drawable

You can open an InputStream from your drawable resource using following code:

InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(id);

here id is the identifier of your drawable resource. for eg: R.drawable.abc

Now using this input stream you can create a file. If you also need help on how create a file using this input stream then tell me.

Update: to write data in a file:

try
    {
    File f=new File("your file name");
    InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(id);
    OutputStream out=new FileOutputStream(f);
    byte buf[]=new byte[1024];
    int len;
    while((len=inputStream.read(buf))>0)
    out.write(buf,0,len);
    out.close();
    inputStream.close();
    }
    catch (IOException e){}
    }

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