In the last two years we've written 24 Picasso tutorials, which describe every little feature of Picasso. We would love to write more, but unfortunately there has been no new release of Picasso in over two years. The latest version at the time of writing is still 2.5.2. …

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 …

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 Picasso'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 Picasso. 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 …

When working with Picasso, at some point you'll run into the following scenario: Picasso shows the error placeholder and you can't figure out why. Even when you activate logging you'll only see that loading an image failed, but not the reason for the failure. In this tutorial, you'll learn how …

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 Picasso in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

After reading a full-blown introduction to Picasso in the previous tutorials we're moving to an easier topic. At the beginning of this series we've worked through the example of a gallery kind-of app full with images. But what if the image is just a small part of the list element? …

We're back with another Picasso transformation post. We've already shown you how to transform images in a previous post. There are a few implementations for Picasso transformations floating around on the Internet, but it's tedious work to find a good one for your need. In this blog post, we'll show …