For the More Curious: Solving the Image Downloading Problem
This book is here to teach you about the tools in the standard Android library. If you are open to using third-party libraries, though, there are a few libraries that can save you a whole lot of time in various scenarios, including the image downloading work you implemented in PhotoGallery.
Admittedly, the solution you implemented in this chapter is far from perfect. When you start to need caching, transformations, and better performance, it is natural to ask if someone else has solved this problem before you. The answer is, of course: someone has. There are several libraries available that solve the image-loading problem. We currently use Picasso (http://square.github.io/picasso/ ...
Get Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
