Fresco
An Android library for managing images and the memory they use. (by facebook)
Coil
Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform. (by coil-kt)
| Fresco | Coil | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 12 | |
| 17,114 | 11,233 | |
| 0.1% | 0.9% | |
| 9.6 | 9.6 | |
| 3 days ago | about 8 hours ago | |
| Java | Kotlin | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Fresco
Posts with mentions or reviews of Fresco.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-10.
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React Native 0.57.x <Image/> large images low quality
I have created an issue at Fresco on August 22, 2019 and after some conversations and talkings, the only way for now to disable image downsample, is to compile Fresco from source after removing/comment out the downsample code inside DecodeProducer.java.
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What are the most common used (3rd party) libraries and frameworks used in Android development?
Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco
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A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
Project: Fresco (An Image Management Library) Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved. License (BSD License) https://github.com/facebook/fresco/blob/master/LICENSE
Coil
Posts with mentions or reviews of Coil.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-31.
- 안드로이드 앱의 API 응답 캐싱
- 2025년에 안드로이드 앱을 만들기
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Top 10 Essential Tools for Android Development
Coil is a fast, lightweight image-loading library for Android apps. Built with Kotlin, it simplifies image handling within apps by loading, caching, and displaying images efficiently. Coil integrates well with Kotlin Coroutines, making it a great choice for modern Android development.
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Coil and Ktor in Kotlin Multiplatform Compose project
Coil 3.0 https://coil-kt.github.io/coil/
- How to convert a bitmap to circular shaped in compose , canvas.drawBitmap() is throwing exception in android 11
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Simple RSS Feed Reader - Jetpack Compose
For image loading, I used the rememberImagePainter() composable function from the coil image loading library.
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Coil 2.0 is out now
Unfortunately there is still no support for applying transformations to placeholders 😞
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Best way to fadein image views in a recyclerview?
You can also take a look at Coil, Picasso or Glide which usually have some kind of crossfade animation when the image loads.
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Implementing Jetpack Compose + Orbit MVI
Name Link Koin https://insert-koin.io Jetpack Compose https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose Navigation Compose https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/navigation Orbit MVI https://orbit-mvi.org Coil https://coil-kt.github.io/coil/ Room https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/room?hl=ja Kotlin-Serialiazation https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization PokemonGO-Pokedex https://github.com/Biuni/PokemonGO-Pokedex
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What are the most common used (3rd party) libraries and frameworks used in Android development?
Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Fresco and Coil you can also consider the following projects:
glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
glide-transformations - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Glide.
Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android
Glide Bitmap Pool - Glide Bitmap Pool is a memory management library for reusing the bitmap memory
Android-Universal-Image-Loader - Powerful and flexible library for loading, caching and displaying images on Android.