Picasso vs RxAndroid

Picasso

A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android (by square)

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RxAndroid

RxJava bindings for Android (by ReactiveX)

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Picasso		RxAndroid
	Project
5	Mentions	4
18,661	Stars	19,865
0.1%	Growth	0.1%
8.2	Activity	4.7
13 days ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Picasso

Posts with mentions or reviews of Picasso. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

Best libraries for Android Developers
19 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

Picasso
Best way to fadein image views in a recyclerview?
3 projects | /r/androiddev | 10 Apr 2022

You can also take a look at Coil, Picasso or Glide which usually have some kind of crossfade animation when the image loads.
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
Mini-tutorial Android Studio: Agregar imagen desde una url en un ImageView
1 project | dev.to | 22 Dec 2021
Possivile violazione della licenza Apache 2.0 e MIT nell'applicazione CieID
8 projects | /r/ItalyInformatica | 3 Jul 2021

picasso (Apache 2.0);

RxAndroid

Posts with mentions or reviews of RxAndroid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

How to do threading in Android.
2 projects | /r/androiddev | 24 Mar 2023

Since you mentioned java, there is RxJava and RxAndroid. Google general recommendation now is to use kotlin coroutines if you're considering writing your app with that.
Best libraries for Android Developers
19 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

RxAndroid
RxAndroid - can someone give me some links for good articles and github projects?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 2 Oct 2021

Well, as mentioned in the RxAndroid's Readme, it's only Android extensions to RxJava. It makes it easy to subscribe or observe on the main thread or a specific looper. So just focusing on learning RxJava should be enough. You can find many resources for that, here is a compilation: http://reactivex.io/tutorials.html
A foss "PDF scanner", alternatives to CamScanner
12 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Dec 2020

Project: RxAndroid (Android specific bindings for RxJava) Copyright (c) 2015 The RxAndroid authors. License (Apache License Version 2.0) https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid/blob/master/LICENSE

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Picasso and RxAndroid you can also consider the following projects:

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

EventBus - Event bus for Android and Java that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services, etc. Less code, better quality.

Coil - Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android

otto

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

tinybus

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

Drekkar - An Android event bus for WebView and JS.

Thumbnailator - Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java

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