Picasso
A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android (by square)
Thumbnailator
Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java (by coobird)
| Picasso | Thumbnailator | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | - | |
| 18,760 | 5,267 | |
| 0.3% | 1.0% | |
| 8.1 | 0.0 | |
| 6 months ago | 2 months ago | |
| Kotlin | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
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 2025-03-10.
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Best libraries for Android Developers
Picasso
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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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What are the most common used (3rd party) libraries and frameworks used in Android development?
Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco
- Mini-tutorial Android Studio: Agregar imagen desde una url en un ImageView
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Possivile violazione della licenza Apache 2.0 e MIT nell'applicazione CieID
picasso (Apache 2.0);
Thumbnailator
Posts with mentions or reviews of Thumbnailator.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Thumbnailator yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Picasso and Thumbnailator you can also consider the following projects:
glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
Imgscalr - Simple Java image-scaling library implementing Chris Campbell's incremental scaling algorithm as well as Java2D's "best-practices" image-scaling techniques.
Coil - Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.
ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android
TwelveMonkeys - TwelveMonkeys ImageIO: Additional plug-ins and extensions for Java's ImageIO