In the last eleven blog posts, we've covered all major functionalities of Picasso. You've learned a lot of various features in the library. In the last two blog posts, we're going to modify the Picasso instance itself. This gives us access to the core of Picasso's behavior. {{outline}} Picasso.Builder …

Within the previous post about hapi and handlebars, we show you how to create a dynamic layout template. Actually, this was just the surface of the functionality hapi provides with its handlebars integration. The view configuration for handlebars with hapi allows multiple options. This article shows you how to use …

The caching component of Picasso is fundamental to its awesomeness. Especially when your app deals with a lot of (large) images, fine-tuned caches are important for a fluent and neat user experience. Last week, we've looked at forcing Picasso to skip certain caches. This week, we'll show you options how …

Implementing search on mobile devices is always tricky. You need to consider design and especially user experience aspects. No Submit Button The tricky question we had to ask ourselves while implementing design and functionality: how to create a smooth search experience without a submit button? Actually, there are some search …

We've mentioned at the beginning of this series that Picasso uses a memory and disk cache to load previously requested image much faster. In this blog post, we'll take a much closer look at the caching configuration and how you can adapt the standard behavior. {{outline}} {{video}} Standard Behavior The …

If you read all previous blog posts, you gained some comprehensive knowledge on how to load and handle images with Picasso. So far, we've always left the images untouched (except resizing and scaling to make it fit better). This week's blog post is all about manipulating the input image. {{outline} …

You've already learned a lot about Picasso. Nevertheless, until now we've always assumed you're just loading the images into an ImageView. However, this is rarely the exclusive use in an Android app. You might need to load an image without displaying it in an ImageView, or you want to learn …

After learning how to load, resize, scale images and how to influence the image managements with multiple aspects, we'll look at a very advanced optimization today: tagging. Picasso offers to group many image requests in order to manage them together. {{outline}} Idea of Picasso's tag() In the last blog post, …