I used the following Binding Adapter and it's working fine.

@BindingAdapter("backgroundImageUrl")
 fun loadBackgroundImage(view: ImageView, imageUrl:String?)
{
Glide.with(view.context).load(imageUrl).into(object:SimpleTarget<Drawable>()
{
override fun onResourceReady(resource: Drawable, transition: Transition<in 
Drawable>?) 
{
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
{
 view.background = resource}
 }
 })
 }

You can try as follows

    try {
        ImageView i = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.image);
        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream((InputStream)new URL(imageUrl).getContent());
        i.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Try this XML:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image_view_background"
        android:layout_width="250dp"
        android:layout_height="250dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:alpha="0.4"
        app:mainImageUrl="@{item.backgroundImageUrl}"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"/>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image_view_main"
        android:layout_width="230dp"
        android:layout_height="230dp"
        app:mainImageUrl="@{item.mainImageUrl}"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

For checking purpose I just set the alpha for the background image.

Hope this trick will help you.