Android : cannot display icon from google places

I have been wrestling with this all night . Here's the issue I am using the google places api in my android project and want to use the icons provided in the json output. I have looked at the questions already posed and they all refer to javascript. Essentially in the log file it keeps stating that it can't find the file when I attempt to access this path. I can put the uri in the browse and it show up any ideas? the uri is http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/restaurant-71.png and heres the code it gives a warning too and when the marker is added (because its null errors out)

private Bitmap getBitmapFromUri(Uri uri) throws IOException {
AssetFileDescriptor FDescriptor =
        //getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uri, "r");
getContentResolver().openAssetFileDescriptor(uri, "r");
FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = FDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor);
FDescriptor.close();
return image;

}

any help would be greatly appreciated