onCreate() method being skipped

Question

I am creating an app like Instagram and I am having a very hard time right now. When the users select an image they click the next button and they go to the next scene to write a caption. But what is happening is that users just upload the pictures and they don't go to the scene to add a caption. They go straight to the scene that is suppose to show AFTER they add a caption.

These are the errors that show up on my LogCat:

07-10 15:23:21.150 30970-31309/tabian.com.hash E/ImageLoader: UIL doesn't support scheme(protocol) by default [com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzu@f488c6e]. You should implement this support yourself (BaseImageDownloader.getStreamFromOtherSource(...))
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: UIL doesn't support scheme(protocol) by default [com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzu@f488c6e]. You should implement this support yourself (BaseImageDownloader.getStreamFromOtherSource(...))
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.download.BaseImageDownloader.getStreamFromOtherSource(BaseImageDownloader.java:280)
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.download.BaseImageDownloader.getStream(BaseImageDownloader.java:99)
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.LoadAndDisplayImageTask.downloadImage(LoadAndDisplayImageTask.java:291)
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.LoadAndDisplayImageTask.tryCacheImageOnDisk(LoadAndDisplayImageTask.java:274)
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.LoadAndDisplayImageTask.tryLoadBitmap(LoadAndDisplayImageTask.java:230)
at com.nostra13.universalimageloader.core.LoadAndDisplayImageTask.run(LoadAndDisplayImageTask.java:136)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

This is the code I believe is failing:

GalleryFragment:

TextView nextScreen = view.findViewById(R.id.tvNext);
nextScreen.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Log.d(TAG, "onClick: Navigating to the final share screen.");

        if(isTaskRoot ()){
            Intent intent = new Intent(GalleryFragment.this.getActivity(), NextActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.selected_image), mSelectedImage);
            GalleryFragment.this.startActivity(intent);
        }else{
            Intent intent = new Intent(GalleryFragment.this.getActivity(), AccountSettingsActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.selected_image), mSelectedImage);
            intent.putExtra(getString(R.string.return_to_fragment), getString(R.string.edit_profile_fragment));
            GalleryFragment.this.startActivity(intent);
            Objects.requireNonNull(GalleryFragment.this.getActivity()).finish();
        }
    }
});

UniversalImageLoader:

public static void setImage(String imgURL, ImageView image, final ProgressBar mProgressBar, String append){

    ImageLoader imageLoader = ImageLoader.getInstance();
    imageLoader.displayImage(append + imgURL, image, new ImageLoadingListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLoadingStarted(String imageUri, View view) {
            if(mProgressBar != null){
                mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingFailed(String imageUri, View view, FailReason failReason) {
            if(mProgressBar != null){
                mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingComplete(String imageUri, View view, Bitmap loadedImage) {
            if(mProgressBar != null){
                mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingCancelled(String imageUri, View view) {
            if(mProgressBar != null){
                mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }
    });
}
}

EDIT:

private String mAppend = "file:/";

//use the grid adapter to adapter the images to gridview
    GridImageAdapter adapter = new 
GridImageAdapter(GalleryFragment.this.getActivity(), 
R.layout.layout_grid_imageview, mAppend, imgURLs);
    gridView.setAdapter(adapter);

    if (imgURLs.isEmpty()) {
        // Array list is empty, handle accordingly
    } else {
        //set the first image to be displayed when the activity fragment view is inflated
        try {
            setImage(imgURLs.get(0), galleryImage, mAppend);
            mSelectedImage = imgURLs.get(0);
        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            Log.e(TAG, "setupGridView: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: " + e.getMessage());
        }

        gridView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Log.d(TAG, "onItemClick: Selected an image: " + imgURLs.get(position));

                setImage(imgURLs.get(position), galleryImage, mAppend);
                mSelectedImage = imgURLs.get(position);
            }
        });
    }
}

private void setImage(String imgURL, ImageView image, String append){
    Log.d(TAG, "setImage: Setting image");

    ImageLoader imageLoader = ImageLoader.getInstance();

    imageLoader.displayImage(append + imgURL, image, new ImageLoadingListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLoadingStarted(String imageUri, View view) {
            mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingFailed(String imageUri, View view, FailReason failReason) {
            mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingComplete(String imageUri, View view, Bitmap loadedImage) {
            mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadingCancelled(String imageUri, View view) {
            mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        }
    });
}
}

EDIT 2 !!

public static void setImage(String imgURL, ImageView image, final ProgressBar mProgressBar, String append){

    FirebaseStorage storage = FirebaseStorage.getInstance();
    StorageReference storageRef = storage.getReferenceFromUrl("Url to storage");


 storageRef.child("users/me/profile.png").getDownloadUrl().
addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Uri>() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(Uri uri) {
            // HERE will be your proper URI to load by Universal Image Loader
            Log.e("uri1", uri.toString());
        }
     }).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
        @Override
        public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception exception) {
            // Handle any errors
        }
    });

Answer 1

Library universalimageloader has a problem with load image that you want to load, because you provide wrong URL to the image.

There is specified URIs in documentation that you need to use to load image. Print your String imgUrl before you load it and tell me what is there?

Acceptable URIs examples from library documentation

"file:///mnt/sdcard/image.png" // from SD card
"file:///mnt/sdcard/video.mp4" // from SD card (video thumbnail)
"content://media/external/images/media/13" // from content provider
"content://media/external/video/media/13" // from content provider (video thumbnail)
"assets://image.png" // from assets
"drawable://" + R.drawable.img // from drawables (non-9patch images)

So... You want to show your photo with this url:

"file:/" + "gs://hash-a921f.appspot.com/photos/users/YqwhCwkBm8WM6Vd3PjcHHPl2suZ2/profile_photo"

This is wrong composed URI. You must to retrieve real URI for your "profile_photo" from firebase.

I think you can do it following this link: https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/android/download-files#download_data_via_url

You must execute it BEFORE you execute setImage() method.

storageRef.child("users/me/profile.png").getDownloadUrl().addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Uri>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(Uri uri) {
                // HERE will be your proper URI to load by Universal Image Loader
                // Now you can use setImage() method, use uri.toString() as imageUrl. Remove "append" variable in setImage() method.
            }
        }).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception exception) {
                // Handle any errors
            }
        });