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What is a better library for Android. Picasso or Glide and why? I'm using Picasso at this moment but the images are loading very slow. Is Glide faster then Picasso?
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Glide's loading times are faster and it uses a small amount of memory for cache, but the library size is quite large. It, too, is easy to implement. Glide might be a better alternative to Picasso when memory footprint is less of a concern or more and larger images need to be processed.
Glide is faster and the results of Picasso and Coil are similar. But what about when we are loading from the cache. As you can see in the images below we have the best times for Glide in most of the cases. Coil is the second and Picasso is the last one by far.
Picasso is open source and one of the widely used image download libraries in Android. It is created and maintained by Square. It is among the powerful image download and caching library for Android. Picasso simplifies the process of loading images from external URLs and displays them on your application.
Neither Glide nor Picasso is perfect. The way Glide loads an image to memory and do the caching is better than Picasso which let an image loaded far faster. In addition, it also helps preventing an app from popular OutOfMemoryError. GIF Animation loading is a killing feature provided by Glide. Anyway Picasso decodes an image with better quality than Glide.
https://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/get-to-know-glide-recommended-by-google/en
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