***Solved:*** *The answer was to update all of the nuget packages and target a newer version of Android. Now images loads as expected. I'm not happy with this as I was using exactly the code that Xamarin provided and targeting newer versions has deprecated some of the items the code relys on. Initial version was Xamarin.Forms v23 and I updated to V25* 

I have a brand new Xamarin forms project with a simple view in which I'm trying to display an image. I've tried several ways of getting an image to display and I am not having any luck at all. 

I'm using `<image>` and I have also tried FFImageLoader control as well.

```
<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical">

        <ff:CachedImage Source="https://static.pexels.com/photos/104827/cat-pet-animal-domestic-104827.jpeg" WidthRequest="100" HeightRequest="100" />

        <Button x:Name="btn" Text="Image" Clicked="Button_Clicked" />

        <Frame OutlineColor="Red">
            <Image x:Name="StupidImage" Source="{Binding Thumbnail}"  Aspect="Fill" HeightRequest="100" WidthRequest="100"   />
        </Frame>

        </StackLayout>

```

This is the current view. I've also set the Source directly to a value with no result. 

I'm able to get a stream for the image. I'm able to read all of the bytes from the stream. I built a debug visualizer to display the bytes as an image. Getting the image from a source is not a problem. Getting the image control(s) to display the image is a problem.

I tried binding with a view model. When that failed, I tried that directly setting the source

```
StupidImage.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => result.Stream);

```

I also made a copy of the bytes and tried

```
StupidImage.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => new MemoryStream(imageBytes));

```

I've tried `ImageSource.FromFile()` and `.FromUri`. I tried adding an image to the project as a resource. Each try was the same, the resource was read and the bytes were available, but the image control just doesn't display it. 

I thought maybe it was a size problem, so I set the size of the control. Nothing. I thought maybe it was a resolution problem, so I used a smaller image. I tried several different images of varying quality. 

Then I gave up on the image control and I got the FFImageLoading nuget package and gave it a direct url to an image. Same example that FFImageLoading examples used. Still no image. 

I tried the emulator and I tried 2 different physical devices. Same result.

I also tried setting an image on a button using `btn.Image = "whatever.jpg"` with the same result. 

This is the result every time. I'm lost. How do I get images to display? 

**EDIT:**
I did get this to work, but only on the emulator

```
<Image x:Name="StupidImage" Source="https://static.pexels.com/photos/104827/cat-pet-animal-domestic-104827.jpeg" />

```

and same for 

```
StupidImage.Source = ImageSource.FromUri(new Uri("https://static.pexels.com/photos/104827/cat-pet-animal-domestic-104827.jpeg"));

```

**EDIT 2 - Clarification**

My goal is to allow the user to select a photo from the device and then display a preview of it. 

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6att.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6att.jpg)