Issue with Android Hybid app to display remote image with Ionic framework?

Whitelisting the domains using cordova-plugin-whitelist solves the issue.

Add the plugin via CLI:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-whitelist

and then add the following line of code to your app's config.xml:

<allow-navigation href="http://*/*" />

and

this meta tag in your index.html

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'">

EDIT: The reason for this issue:

From Cordova 4.0.0 for Android's update:

Whitelist functionality is revamped

• You will need to add the new cordova-plugin-whitelist plugin to continue using a whitelist

• Setting a Content-Security-Policy (CSP) is now supported and is the recommended way to whitelist (see details in plugin readme)

• Network requests are blocked by default without the plugin, so install this plugin even to allow all requests, and even if you are using CSP.

• This new whitelist is enhanced to be more secure and configurable, but the Legacy whitelist behaviour is still available via a separate plugin (not recommended).

Note: while not strictly part of this release, the latest default app created by cordova-cli will include this plugin by default.