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 …

Glide has a fairly complex caching system, which we've described in the tutorials on caching basics and best cache preferences. Vijoy consequently asked, if it's possible that Glide ignores (some) query parameters during the cache lookup. For example, if you have to send an access token, which changes every few …

In a previous tutorial we've shown you the basics of Glide caches. In this tutorial we'll explain in more detail what the disk cache settings entail and how it can effect your loading times. Notice — September 20th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

Google highly recommends to use ProGuard for release builds which get distributed via Google Play. We’ll guide you through the basic setup of ProGuard and show you how to configure Glide in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

In the previous tutorial on ListViews with images we've only looked at examples where the entire adapter item is an ImageView. The approach still applies if one or more ImageViews are only a (small) part of the adapter item. Your getView() code will look a little different, but the loading …

Last week we’ve learned about CoreOS’ components and technologies within the ecosystem. This week, we’re directly diving into the practical part and get our hands dirty. If you read the first post, you already know that CoreOS is an operating system geared towards high-availability. Setting up a cluster …

Quite a long time ago we started our series on the image loading library Glide. What was planned as a pretty short series got longer and longer over time. We appreciate your continuous interest and feedback. We hope you learned as much as we did. Let's review what topics we've …