Android Image Loading *without* a Library - Common Interview Question

Published: 14 March 2021
on channel: Rahul Pandey
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Most Android apps will use an image loading library like Glide or Picasso to fetch remote images and display them in an ImageView. A common interview question is to provide the same functionality without relying on these libraries. This tests being able to work with networking primitives (URL connection + input stream), and dealing with multiple threads (UI thread + background threads).

➤ Code we wrote: https://github.com/rpandey1234/ImageL...
➤ Good explainer about handlers and threads:    • Looper, MessageQueue & Handler Explai...  
➤ This problem and solution are inspired from Codepath: http://codepath.github.io/intro_andro...

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