Loading images from a server is an error-prone process. The server can be down, the user can be on a slow mobile connection, or completely lose Internet connection. By default, Glide has some timeouts set for you to balance between waiting long enough for the image to be loaded and …

Glide 4.x has introduced a new feature: the generated API. You've learned the basics of this new feature in our generated API tutorial. One upside of the generated API is that it's easy to extend. This allows you to centralize implementation patterns in your app. In this tutorial you'll …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to load images for a Grid- and ListView. You've upped the UI quality in the advanced ListView tutorial with the holder pattern and rounded images. Unfortunately, even with the holder pattern, a ListView can cause performance issues. Google's RecyclerView has the intention of …

Glide 4.x has introduced a new feature: the generated API. You've learned the basics of this new feature in our generated API tutorial. One upside of the generated API is that it's easy to extend. This allows you to centralize implementation patterns in your app. In this tutorial you'll …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to log image loading with the Android Studio Profiler. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can analyze requests and responses using Facebook's Stetho debug tool. Stetho maps Glide's network activity to Chrome's developer tool. This offers the network information during the development …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Glide. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

In the last few weeks we've updated our 25+ Glide tutorials to Glide 4.x. All tutorials are now suitable to teach you the features for Glide 3.x and Glide 4.x. But what if you want to upgrade from 3.x to 4.x? In our opinion, the …

Glide makes loading images in your Android app quite efficient. Powerful caches avoid loading images over the (mobile) network as much as possible. However, that's not always feasible. Glide has to load images from the Internet when they're not in one of the caches yet. Loading images over the network …