You could try this:
public Bitmap loadBitmap(String url)
{
Bitmap bm = null;
InputStream is = null;
BufferedInputStream bis = null;
try
{
URLConnection conn = new URL(url).openConnection();
conn.connect();
is = conn.getInputStream();
bis = new BufferedInputStream(is, 8192);
bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
if (bis != null)
{
try
{
bis.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (is != null)
{
try
{
is.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return bm;
}
But remember, this method should only be called from within a thread (not GUI -thread). I a AsyncTask.