Load image from URL and paste it into your own bitmap

• Load Image from URL
• Convert Image to BASE64 – easy storage on sqlite database
• Convert image to something that can be drawn

Of course this is just a toy since converting to base64 and back is silly

public static Bitmap getBitmapFromURL(String src) {
	Bitmap ret=null;
    try {
        URL url = new URL(src);
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        connection.setDoInput(true);
        connection.connect();
// get the image
        InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
// convert it into byte[] in prep of convert to base64
        byte[] rawimage=readBytes(input); 
// convert to base64 string
        String x64=Base64.encodeToString(rawimage, Base64.DEFAULT);
// convert back from base64 
        byte[] ext=Base64.decode(x64, Base64.DEFAULT);
// render the byte array as a bitmap
        ret = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(ext, 0, ext.length);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return ret;
}

public void paint() throws Exception{
	   Canvas c = new Canvas(bitmap);
	   Paint p=new Paint(Color.BLACK);
	   c.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
	   p.setTextSize(80);
	   c.drawText("HEY",50,50,p);
	   try {
			//Bitmap timg=getBitmapFromURL("http://www.uclick.com/puzzles/tmjmf/puzzles/tmjmf130501.gif");
	   //c.save();
	   c.scale(3f, 3f, 0, 0);
	   c.drawBitmap(timg, 200, 100, null);
	   } catch(Exception e){
		   e.printStackTrace();   
	   }
	   //c.restore();
	
}