I am trying to retrieve an image from my firebase storage but I'm having problems storing the image download url. I am using final String downloadUrl = task.getResult().getMetadata().getReference().getDownloadUrl().toString(); but this is only reutrning a reference to the task I believe - com.google.android.gms.tasks.zzu@add13a0
What I want to be storing/retrieving is https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/chat-poll-application.appspot.com/o/Group%20Images%2FGig.jpg?alt=media&token=9a90fc94-e65f-4ace-9259-aaaa91b449c3
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong?
Here is the full code:
filePath.putFile(resultUri).addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot>() { @Override public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot> task) { if (task.isSuccessful()) { Toast.makeText(GroupSettingsActivity.this, "Group image uploaded successfully", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); final String downloadUrl = task.getResult().getMetadata().getReference().getDownloadUrl().toString(); RootRef.child("Groups").child(currentGroupName).child("Image").setValue(downloadUrl) .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Void>() { @Override public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Void> task) { if (task.isSuccessful()) { Toast.makeText(GroupSettingsActivity.this, "Image saved successfully", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); loadingBar.dismiss(); } else { String message = task.getException().toString(); Toast.makeText(GroupSettingsActivity.this, "Error: " + message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).toString(); loadingBar.dismiss(); } } }); } else { String message = task.getException().toString(); Toast.makeText(GroupSettingsActivity.this, "Error " + message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); loadingBar.dismiss(); } } }); Here is my database:

getMetadata().getReference().getDownloadUrl().toString();. The call togetDownloadUrlreturns aTaskand you're converting thatTaskto a string. To get the actual download URL you need to add a completion listener to the task as shown here: stackoverflow.com/questions/51056397/…