Picasso VS timber

Compare Picasso vs timber and see what are their differences.

Picasso

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

timber

A logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class. (by JakeWharton)
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Picasso timber
5 9
18,654 10,289
0.1% -
8.2 4.7
8 days ago 15 days ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 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.

timber

Posts with mentions or reviews of timber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Coil - Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

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

Thumbnailator - Thumbnailator - a thumbnail generation library for Java

ion - Android Asynchronous Networking and Image Loading

puree-android - A log collector for Android

Imgscalr - Simple Java image-scaling library implementing Chris Campbell's incremental scaling algorithm as well as Java2D's "best-practices" image-scaling techniques.

Fresco - An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.

ASimpleCache - a simple cache for android and java

routable-android - Routable, an in-app native URL router, for Android