Regularly, you'll run into use cases, where Picasso will load multiple images at the same time. Let's assume you're building an info screen which has a hero image on the top and smaller images at the bottom. For the user experience it'd be optimal that the hero image element is …

In the last blog posts, you've learned how to load images from various sources and how to use different kind of placeholders. This week's blog post is important if you cannot influence the size of the image to be loaded: resizing and scaling! {{outline}} {{video}} Image Resizing with resize(x, …

After we demonstrated the basic networking, loading and caching capabilities of Picasso in the last three weeks, it's time to move to more advanced topics. This week, we'll cover all kinds of placeholders. Picasso does not only display images, it also got your back until the mentioned image is loaded; …

The last two posts in this series have shown how to load a single image into an ImageView. This post will demonstrate a ListView implementation, where each row contains a single ImageView. This is similar to many image gallery apps. {{outline}} Sample Gallery Implementation: ListView First, we'll need some test …

Last week, we've looked at reasons for using Picasso and a simple example request to load an image from an Internet source. But this cannot be the only source for Picasso. Picasso can also load images from the Android resources, files and Uri's. In this blog post, we'll cover all …

We had a lot of success and feedback on our Retrofit series, so we decided to do another series on one of our favorite Square library: Picasso. Picasso can load and display images from many sources, while also taking care of caching and keeping a low memory impact when doing …

Android Studio Productivity In the first post in our Android Quick Tips series we looked at Android's TextView class and helpers. In the second post we'll look at our centerpiece of Android programming: the Android Studio IDE. {{outline}} Android Studio is based on IntelliJ, which is a fantastic foundation for …

This is the last post in our custom font series. So far, we've looked at various topics for custom fonts on Android. We've seen how to apply different font styles, how to configure things directly in XML and how we can vary settings with build variants. This last post will …