Firebase Storage and Android images

Question

So I want to basically get an image from Firebase storage (I have rules set to public).

This is what I have

    ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    Glide.with(this)
    .load("https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/test-7c916.appspot.com/o/images.jpg?alt=media&token=b207cb11-9ad5-48e3-86ac-1dcb07ee6013")
    .into(image);

And I instead of using an https link. I want to use a storage reference. But everytime I try to use a storage reference my app crashes. Please help.

Like the .child() method.

Solution 1

You need to use StorageReference to load Firebase storage image.

   // Reference to an image file in Cloud Storage
StorageReference storageReference = = FirebaseStorage.getInstance().getReference().child("myimage");


ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);

// Load the image using Glide
Glide.with(this /* context */)
        .using(new FirebaseImageLoader())
        .load(storageReference)
        .into(image );

For more details You can check Using FirebaseUI to download and display images.

Solution 2

Put this class FirebaseImageLoader.java into your source, or write yourself.

Make a class anywhere in your app source like below.

@GlideModule
public class MyAppGlideModule extends AppGlideModule {

@Override
public void registerComponents(Context context, Glide glide, Registry registry) {
    // Register FirebaseImageLoader to handle StorageReference
    registry.append(StorageReference.class, InputStream.class,
            new FirebaseImageLoader.Factory());
    }
}

Where you want to load image coad like below.

StorageReference storageReference = FirebaseStorage
                                    .getInstance().getReference().child("myimage");

Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
      .load(completeStorageRefranceToImage)
      .into(imageView);

Please refer for more details.

Comments

[Frank van Puffelen]

While using a StorageReference from the Firebase SDK is indeed one way to download from Cloud Storage, there is also a publicly readable, unguessable download URL. That's what Alexei is using here, so it should work with any library that can download from HTTPS.

[pRaNaY]

Thank you sir for more info about to access Firebase storage. So for Alexei case, we need to figure out why app getting crash.

[Smac]

When I try this FirebaseImageLoader does not show up in blue? I cannot use it? My app is xamarin.android only

[Dumbo]

@pRaNaY Could you tell me which version and what type of Glide library should I use? Now I have tried glide-full-4.6.1.jar and glide-full-4.5.0.jar, but there isn't such a method using() and class FirebaseImageLoader()...

[Milos Simic Simo]

Small note: Also clean project, then do build. After that all should work.