How to load a remote image from the web?

Load a remote image from the web and return it as Bitmap. 

public Bitmap getRemoteImage(final URL aURL) {

    try {

        final URLConnection conn = aURL.openConnection();

        conn.connect();

        final BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(

               conn.getInputStream());

        final Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);

        bis.close();

        return bm;

    } catch (IOException e) {

        Log.d("DEBUGTAG", "Oh noooz an error...");

    }

    return null;

}