Android: Glide not showing large image from URL

Question

I'm trying to load a large hi-res (3225x4800) image from URL into glide for a newspaper company. The image I wanted to load is this High Res Image.

String url = "http://www.businessweekmindanao.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/fitness-and-wellness-poster-final.jpg";

Glide.with(getActivity()).load(url).asBitmap().into(new SimpleTarget<Bitmap>() {
    @Override
    public void onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, GlideAnimation<? super Bitmap> glideAnimation) {
        imageView.setImageBitmap(resource);
    }
});

I'm using Mike Ortiz' TouchImageView from the solution offered here: https://github.com/MikeOrtiz/TouchImageView/issues/135 when loading resource from url. But it seems to only work on small resolution image and it does not load high quality image.

There is an alternative solution I tried from stackoverflow: Android: not displayed ImageView with UIL and TouchImageView which tries to modify the onMeasure() method of Mike's library. It works with:

Glide.with(getActivity()).load(url)
                .into(imageViewPreview);

The problem is it loads the image in very low resolution.

Is there a way to load high resolution image like: 7480x3740 for instance using Glide and TouchImageView? How do I do that?

Answer 1

I have found a solution that worked for my requirement. The override() method does the trick. Setting higher numbers for the target resolution seems to be the final workaround, but the bigger the numbers, the longer the time it would take to display the image(s), so it would be wise to implement a preloader/progressbar.

Glide.with(getContext())
    .asBitMap() //[for new glide versions]
    .load(url)
    //.asBitmap()[for older glide versions]
    //.placeholder(R.drawable.default_placeholder)
    .override(1600, 1600) // Can be 2000, 2000
    .into(new BitmapImageViewTarget(imageViewPreview) {
        @Override
        public void onResourceReady(Bitmap  drawable, GlideAnimation anim) {
            super.onResourceReady(drawable, anim);
            progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    });

Custom centered preloader/progressbar placeholder indicator on relativeLayout xml:

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressBar"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true" />

This is neat because another issue related about loading image asBitmap() in Glide will not show placeholders for error and preloader/progress indicator:

Glide.with(getActivity())
    .load(url).asBitmap()
    .placeholder() //<== will simply not work:
    .error() // <== is also useless
    .into(new SimpleTarget<Bitmap>() {
@Override
public void onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, GlideAnimation<? super Bitmap> glideAnimation) {
        imageView.setImageBitmap(resource);
    }
});

In my research, I have also tried a Picasso solution to handle high quality image:

Picasso.with(getContext())
                .load(url)
                .resize(1500, 0)
                .placeholder(R.drawable.default_placeholder)
                .error(R.drawable.download_error)
                .into(imageViewPreview);

In the end, I was happy with the Glide version.

I hope this will be helpful to anyone that might be facing the same challenge.