Incorrect image rendered with Glide library

Question

I am using the glide library in my android project to fetch and display images. Earlier I was using version 2.0.5 and facing rendering issue. The problem was that the wrong images were rendering. I have updated library to 3.3 version and it now crashes with the following exception.

14-Sep-2014 08:41:31 PM java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
You cannot start a load for a destroyed activity
    at com.bumptech.glide.manager.RequestManagerRetriever.get(RequestManagerRetriever.java:63)
    at com.bumptech.glide.manager.RequestManagerRetriever.get(RequestManagerRetriever.java:29)
    at com.bumptech.glide.Glide.with(Glide.java:537)
    at com.miamiheat.common.MHImageDownloadWrapper.loadImage(MHImageDownloadWrapper.java:12)
    at com.miamiheat.ui.module.MHWallpaperModule.setWallpaperViewData(MHWallpaperModule.java:234)
    at com.miamiheat.ui.module.MHWallpaperModule.taskManagerResponseCallback(MHWallpaperModule.java:257)
    at com.miamiheat.service.taskmanager.MHWallpaperTaskManager.asyncResultCallback(MHWallpaperTaskManager.java:133)
    at com.miamiheat.service.framework.MHAsyncServiceTask.onPostExecute(MHAsyncServiceTask.java:191)
    at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java:631)
    at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java:177)
    at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:644)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5419)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1046)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:862)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Is there anyway to cancel the image download request on activity destroy.

Answer 1

Glide.clear() sometimes doesn't help for me. Pass application context to Glide.with(...) using getApplicationContext() method.

Answer 2

You can always use Glide.clear() to cancel a load.

However, that exception occurs when you try to start a new load after your activity has been destroyed. Are you starting to load images after fetching some data asynchronously? If so you probably want to cancel your async fetch when your activity is stopped or at least ignore the result if the fetch finishes and your activity is destroyed.