Bumptech.Glide.Integration.RecyclerView

Xamarin.Android implementation of Glide's RecyclerView integration library

Introduction

This is a C# implementation of Glide's RecycleView intergration library.

Glide is a fast and efficient image loading library for Android focused on smooth scrolling. Glide offers an easy to use API, a performant and extensible resource decoding pipeline and automatic resource pooling.

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The RecyclerView integration library makes the RecyclerViewPreloader available in your application. RecyclerViewPreloader can automatically load images just ahead of where a user is scrolling in a RecyclerView.

Combined with the right image size and an effective disk cache strategy, this library can dramatically decrease the number of loading tiles/indicators users see when scrolling through lists of images by ensuring that the images the user is about to reach are already in memory.

Dependencies

• Xamarin.Android.Glide, v 4.0.0

Setup

Official docs

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FAQ

Why reimplement instead of creating a binding library?

Attempts to create binding to the 4.0.0 library yield this error: BINDINGSGENERATOR : warning BG8601: No packages found... and I have no idea why that happened.

It turns out the sources code is small, and a reimplementation in C# is faster than to figure out why the bindings build failed.

The Glide version used by Xamarin.Android.Glide is outdated (v4.0.0)

Xamarin.Android.Glide v4.0.0 package is the only one nuget package with full blown bindings. It's probably easier to take a Xamarin official bindings instead of taking another unproven one.

Discussion on updating Xamarin.Android.Glide

Can this works on later version of Glide?

I didn't notice any difference between v4.0-v4.8 (latest checked on 27 Match 2019) of this RecyclerView integration library.

So, if you can find a newer binding library for Glide, you should be able copy/paste the content in RecyclerView.cs and it should work.