Glide

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title: Glide Examples - Load Images tags: - ImageLoader chapter: Glide post_status: publish date: 2021-05-15 summary: Glide is an image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Glide in several scenarios. custom_fields: chapter: Glide Tutorial chapter_description: Glide is an image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Glide in several scenarios.

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Glide is an image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling

It is an alternative to Picasso and Fresco.

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Glide in several scenarios. Follow the quick examples and snippets to learn how to use Glide.

What is Glide?

Glide is a fast and efficient open source media management and image loading framework for Android that wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling into a simple and easy to use interface.

Glide supports fetching, decoding, and displaying video stills, images, and animated GIFs. Glide includes a flexible API that allows developers to plug in to almost any network stack. By default Glide uses a custom HttpUrlConnection based stack, but also includes utility libraries plug in to Google's Volley project or Square's OkHttp library instead.

Glide's primary focus is on making scrolling any kind of a list of images as smooth and fast as possible, but Glide is also effective for almost any case where you need to fetch, resize, and display a remote image.

Step 1: Installation

Install Glide via Gradle:

repositories {
  google()
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.14.2'
  annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.14.2'
}

Or Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.bumptech.glide</groupId>
  <artifactId>glide</artifactId>
  <version>4.14.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.bumptech.glide</groupId>
  <artifactId>compiler</artifactId>
  <version>4.14.2</version>
  <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

Step 2: Use it

Check out the documentation for pages on a variety of topics, and see the javadocs.

Simple use cases will look something like this:

// For a simple view:
@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  ...
  ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.my_image_view);

  Glide.with(this).load("http://goo.gl/gEgYUd").into(imageView);
}

// For a simple image list:
@Override public View getView(int position, View recycled, ViewGroup container) {
  final ImageView myImageView;
  if (recycled == null) {
    myImageView = (ImageView) inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_image_view, container, false);
  } else {
    myImageView = (ImageView) recycled;
  }

  String url = myUrls.get(position);

  Glide
    .with(myFragment)
    .load(url)
    .centerCrop()
    .placeholder(R.drawable.loading_spinner)
    .into(myImageView);

  return myImageView;
}

Quick Glide Examples

1. How to Display Image with Glide

Here's a static method to load an image into an imageview. You provide a url and the imageview and Glide will load the image, showing a placeholder as the image loads.

You can also set the cache strategy:

    public static void displayImage(String url,ImageView imageView) {

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(url)

                .placeholder(R.drawable.pictures_no)
                .thumbnail(0.2f)
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

2. How to Display Image referer

    public static String UserAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1; en-us; GT-I9000 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2";
    public static void displayImageReferer(String url,ImageView imageView,String referer) {
        if(url==null){
            return;
        }
        LazyHeaders.Builder builder=new LazyHeaders.Builder().addHeader("User-Agent", UserAgent);
        if(referer!=null){
            builder.addHeader("Referer", referer);
        }

        GlideUrl glideUrl = new GlideUrl(url,builder.build());

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(glideUrl)
                .placeholder(R.drawable.pictures_no)
                .thumbnail(0.2f)
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

3. How to Display a Gif Image with Glide

    public static void displayImageGif(String url,ImageView imageView) {

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(url)
                .thumbnail(0.2f)
                .placeholder(R.drawable.pictures_no)
                .crossFade()
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

4. How to Load Bitmap into ImageView via Glide

    public static void displayImageBitmap(String url,ImageView imageView) {

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(url)
                .asBitmap()
                .thumbnail(0.2f)
                .placeholder(R.drawable.pictures_no)
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

5. How to Load Bitmap Captcha into ImageView via Glide

    public static void displayImageBitmapCaptcha(String url, ImageView imageView) {

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(url)
                .asBitmap()
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.NONE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

6. How to Display thumbnail into ImageView via Glide

    public static void displayImageThumb(String url,ImageView imageView) {

        Glide.with(MainApp.getContext())
                .load(url)
                .asBitmap()
                .thumbnail(0.2f)
                .placeholder(R.drawable.pictures_no)
                .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE)
                .into(imageView);

    }

More Glide Examples

Here are more Glide examples and extensions

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Glide Alternatives

Here are some cool alternatives to this library:

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