Image loading libraries make it simple to fetch, decode, and display images. On Android, it’s very likely you’ll need to use one as the Android SDK mostly only exposes low-level APIs like BitmapFactory and ImageDecoder to load images. These APIs accept an InputStream or a Uri however threading, memory and…

When I started working on Coil I thought domain-specific languages (DSLs) were a Kotlinesque replacement for builders. As a result, many of Coil’s public functions accept a trailing lambda for object construction: However, over the past few months I’ve come to prefer builders over DSLs and as of Coil…

Jetpack Compose was announced at Google IO 2019 and is going to change how we do UI development on Android. …

I’m excited to announce Coil — an open-source Kotlin-first image loading library for Android. Coil is fast, lightweight, modern, and treats Kotlin Coroutines, OkHttp, Okio, and AndroidX Lifecycles as first-class citizens. Coil is an acronym for Coroutine Image Loader. With hundreds of millions of catalog listings, we load a lot…

It’s no secret that the Android SDK has a few rough edges. Imagine that you’re new to Android and trying to display an image. You’ve already added the image to your res folder and now you need to get a Drawable. You write outresources.getDrawable() only to find it’s deprecated and…