In one of my projects, I used the following code for displaying images in ListView: public Bitmap getBitmap(String bitmapUrl) { try { URL url = new URL(bitmapUrl); return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection().getInputStream()); } catch(Exception ex) {return null;} } and then Bitmap bitmap = getBitmap(thumbnailUrl); ImageView image = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.avatar); image.setImageBitmap(bitmap); This solution is pretty simple, but the problem… Continue reading android: Display image from URL in ListView