Image Loading
Explore how to load images from the internet into your Android app using the Glide library. Understand handling caching, circular image transformations, fade animations, and necessary permissions to build a visually appealing details screen.
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Dependencies
Loading an image from the Internet may sound like a trivial task, but it is not. There are a lot of cases which we would have to handle, some of them include the following:
- Storing and retrieving the image from the RAM cache
- Storing and retrieving the image from the disk cache
- Scaling and resizing the image
- Displaying the loading state and the error state
- Handling out-of-memory scenarios
- Handling concurrent image loading
- Etc.
To avoid handling all the scenarios described above, there are several popular image loader libraries developed and distributed as open source. The most popular are: ...