Fresco vs subsampling-scale-image-view

Fresco

An Android library for managing images and the memory they use. (by facebook)

Android library (AAR). Highly configurable, easily extendable deep zoom view for displaying huge images without loss of detail. Perfect for photo galleries, maps, building plans etc. (by davemorrissey)

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Fresco		subsampling-scale-image-view
	Project
3	Mentions	4
17,036	Stars	7,764
0.0%	Growth	-
9.4	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Java	Language	Java
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

React Native 0.57.x <Image/> large images low quality
6 projects | /r/codehunter | 10 Apr 2022

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.
What are the most common used (3rd party) libraries and frameworks used in Android development?
30 projects | /r/androiddev | 7 Jan 2022

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco
A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
12 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Dec 2020

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

subsampling-scale-image-view

Posts with mentions or reviews of subsampling-scale-image-view. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.

Introducing telephoto, a compose library for displaying zoomable images with automatic sub‑sampling of large bit
1 project | /r/androiddev | 16 May 2023
Working with Large Images in Android
1 project | /r/androiddev | 2 Aug 2022

I've used this in the past: https://github.com/davemorrissey/subsampling-scale-image-view
Interactive Map
2 projects | /r/androiddev | 8 May 2022

For loading large images, you can try Subsampling Scale Image View.
A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
12 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Dec 2020

Project: Subsampling Scale Image View Copyright (c) 2015 David Morrissey. License (Apache License Version 2.0) https://github.com/davemorrissey/subsampling-scale-image-view/blob/master/LICENSE

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Fresco and subsampling-scale-image-view you can also consider the following projects:

glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling

PhotoView - Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.

Coil - Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

android-gpuimage - Android filters based on OpenGL (idea from GPUImage for iOS)

Glide Bitmap Pool - Glide Bitmap Pool is a memory management library for reusing the bitmap memory

GifImageView - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images

glide-transformations - An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations for Glide.

TouchImageView - Adds touch functionality to Android ImageView.

Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android

GestureViews - ImageView and FrameLayout with gestures control and position animation

Android-Universal-Image-Loader - Powerful and flexible library for loading, caching and displaying images on Android.

TextDrawable - This light-weight library provides images with letter/text like the Gmail app. It extends the Drawable class thus can be used with existing/custom/network ImageView classes. Also included is a fluent interface for creating drawables and a customizable ColorGenerator.