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 …

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 …

A little while ago, we got a question on how to rotate images with Glide, since Picasso offers this functionality out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, Glide does not offer this as one little method call, but in this tutorial we'll show you how to make it almost as easy. Notice — September 19th 2017 …

In the last tutorial, you've seen how to declare and configure a Glide module, which adds the image size to the request. This is a very powerful optimization. However, it's important to know that declared Glide modules are always active. By default, you cannot dynamically turn them off or on. …

In the last tutorials, we've seen a bunch of various customizations for Glide using Glide modules. We'll show you the last example today, but possibly the most interesting one: how to request images in specific dimensions from your server. Notice — September 15th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. …