title: // turns into / when parsing URL for image
body: <p>I'm trying to convert a String which contains a URL into a URI object. However when I do</p>
  
  <pre><code>ImageView img = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.img);
  img.setImageURI(Uri.parse("http://www.menucool.com/slider/jsImgSlider/images/image-slider-2.jpg"));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but for some reason I'm getting an error saying</p>
  
  <pre><code>E/BitmapFactory﹕ Unable to decode stream: java.io.FileNotFoundException: http:/www.menucool.com/slider/jsImgSlider/images/image-slider-2.jpg: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  </code></pre>