Android – Lazy Loading Images in ListView

Here's what I created to hold the images that my app is currently displaying. Please note that the "Log" object in use here is my custom wrapper around the final Log class inside Android.

package com.wilson.android.library;

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import java.io.IOException;

public class DrawableManager {
    private final Map<String, Drawable> drawableMap;

    public DrawableManager() {
        drawableMap = new HashMap<String, Drawable>();
    }

    public Drawable fetchDrawable(String urlString) {
        if (drawableMap.containsKey(urlString)) {
            return drawableMap.get(urlString);
        }

        Log.d(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "image url:" + urlString);
        try {
            InputStream is = fetch(urlString);
            Drawable drawable = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src");


            if (drawable != null) {
                drawableMap.put(urlString, drawable);
                Log.d(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "got a thumbnail drawable: " + drawable.getBounds() + ", "
                        + drawable.getIntrinsicHeight() + "," + drawable.getIntrinsicWidth() + ", "
                        + drawable.getMinimumHeight() + "," + drawable.getMinimumWidth());
            } else {
              Log.w(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "could not get thumbnail");
            }

            return drawable;
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            Log.e(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "fetchDrawable failed", e);
            return null;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "fetchDrawable failed", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public void fetchDrawableOnThread(final String urlString, final ImageView imageView) {
        if (drawableMap.containsKey(urlString)) {
            imageView.setImageDrawable(drawableMap.get(urlString));
        }

        final Handler handler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()) {
            @Override
            public void handleMessage(Message message) {
                imageView.setImageDrawable((Drawable) message.obj);
            }
        };

        Thread thread = new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                //TODO : set imageView to a "pending" image
                Drawable drawable = fetchDrawable(urlString);
                Message message = handler.obtainMessage(1, drawable);
                handler.sendMessage(message);
            }
        };
        thread.start();
    }

    private InputStream fetch(String urlString) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(urlString);
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
        return response.getEntity().getContent();
    }
}

I used the code in following link : another stackoverflow question

i made small changes in order to solve recycling view problem.i set the url of image to Tag of imageview in the adapter. Following code contains my solution that solves recycling problem:

public void fetchDrawableOnThread(final String urlString, final ImageView imageView,Drawable drw) {

    imageView.setImageDrawable(drw);//drw is default image
    if (drawableMap.containsKey(urlString)) {
        if(imageView.getTag().toString().equals(urlString))
        {
            imageView.setImageBitmap(drawableMap.get(urlString));
            imageView.invalidate();
            return;
        }

    }

    final Handler handler = new Handler() {
        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message message) {
            BitmapWrapper wrapper = (BitmapWrapper)message.obj;
            if(wrapper.imageurl.equals(imageView.getTag().toString()))
            {
                imageView.setImageBitmap((Bitmap)wrapper.bitmap);
                imageView.invalidate();
            }

        }
    };

    Thread thread = new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            //TODO : set imageView to a "pending" image

            Bitmap drawable = fetchDrawable(urlString);
            BitmapWrapper wrapper = new BitmapWrapper();
            wrapper.bitmap = drawable;
            wrapper.imageurl = urlString;
            Message message = handler.obtainMessage(1, wrapper);
            handler.sendMessage(message);
        }
    };
    thread.start();
}


    public class BitmapWrapper
{
    public Bitmap bitmap;
    public String imageurl;
}