An Analysis of Existing Android Image Loading Libraries: Picasso, Glide, Fresco, AUIL and Volley

Abstract

Recently, a large amount of development of Android applications being developed because of an increase in smartphone demand. Social network applications are one of the popular applications. Almost all these applications handle photos or images. Android application developers feel burden on processing images or photos in applications. For this reason, android third party libraries which refine inconvenience are developed. In this paper, we compare and analyze Picasso, Glide, Fresco and AUIL which are android third party libraries used for image processing. Furthermore, we also compare and analyze Volley framework. Our results can help image loading library users choose the appropriate one among them.