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3. Glide

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An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling. It is a fast and efficient open source media management and image loading framework for Android that wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling into a simple and easy to use interface.

Final Verdict

So my feeling is that, if you have a large, stable, pre-existing project, you are probably better off using Picasso. Integration is painless, performance seems good, and if the fade-in works for you, you get some free visual fun, too.

If, on the other hand, your app is new, or if it’s small enough that you can think about swapping out the back end completely, and it deals mostly with small HTTP payloads, Volley is worth considering. Once you define your requests, using them from within a fragment or activity is painless. And unlike parallel AsyncTasks, you don’t have to worry about spinning up too many threads, or potential missteps with shared state.

Or what about using both at the same time? If Volley’s image management causes you severe pain, then you’re probably fine using both. I wouldn’t start off using both, however. Picasso solves a couple of pain points that Volley doesn’t address, and it’s trivial to integrate, which means that you should be perfectly fine putting off switching to Picasso until it’s necessary.