Image Loading

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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:

• storing and retrieving the image from the RAM cache
• storing and retrieving the image from the disk cache
• scaling and resizing the image
• displaying loading and error states
• 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:

• Glide
• Fres

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