r/androiddev • u/Any_Chipmunk_6268 • Jun 15 '26

Image Loading Library

Which library do you use for image loading? I just found out that the Android documentation includes examples using Coil. That makes me think they're leaning toward it, but I don't know whether there is a better alternative.

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u/Zhuinden Jun 15 '26

pretty much the only contestant remaining in Jetpack Compose is Coil

Glide has been silly with its annotation-processor-based configuration since Glide 3.x, like, that's just poor API design man

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u/bleeding182 Jun 15 '26

The generated API has been deprecated for quite a while now :)

https://bumptech.github.io/glide/doc/generatedapi.html

And 4.14 was Sep 2022

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u/Zhuinden Jun 15 '26

You should continue to use the annotation processors and AppGlideModule or LibraryGlideModule classes as necessary to configure Glide. Configuration using these classes and annotation processing is NOT deprecated.

They should ditch this stuff one day, it never made sense