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Overview
Glide is an image and media loading library for Android. It fetches and decodes images, animated GIFs, and video stills while integrating memory and disk caching, resource pooling, and ImageView delivery.
Features and best fit
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Key features
Combine fetching, decoding, caching, and display behind one API
Glide loads remote images, GIFs, and video stills while coordinating memory and disk caches and resource pooling. Its design emphasizes smooth scrolling in image-heavy lists.
Sources: [2]
Swap the networking integration to match the application
The default stack is based on HttpUrlConnection, with integration libraries available for OkHttp and Volley. Teams can align image fetching with the networking stack already used by the Android application.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits Android screens that display many remote images
Feeds, catalogs, avatars, and other image-heavy views can centralize resizing, placeholders, and caching instead of implementing those concerns around every ImageView.
Sources: [2]
Before adoption
Review huge-image behavior and the repository's mixed licensing
The README says Glide can downsample huge images but does not provide the tiling needed for dedicated zoom-and-pan ImageViews. The repository LICENSE combines a BSD-style main license with Apache-2.0 and MIT-style terms for third-party components, so redistribution should account for those notices.
Official sources
- [1]bumptech/glide — GitHub repository(2026-10-06)
- [2]Glide v5.0.9 — README(2026-10-06)
- [3]Glide v5.0.9 release(2026-10-06)
- [4]Glide v5.0.9 — LICENSE(2026-10-06)
Supplemental curator note
Glide is a strong fit when Android screens need one pipeline for image loading, resizing, and caching. Dedicated zoom-and-pan experiences should compare tiling-oriented libraries because that is outside Glide's primary design.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Add Glide 5.0.9 to the project
Pin the reviewed 5.0.9 artifact in the Gradle dependencies of an existing Android project.
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:5.0.9' - 2
Create an ImageView target
Add an ImageView to an Activity or Fragment layout for Glide to populate.
<ImageView android:id="@+id/my_image_view" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="200dp" /> - 3
Load a URL into the ImageView
Follow the README minimal example and confirm that the image is displayed.
ImageView imageView = findViewById(R.id.my_image_view); Glide.with(this).load("https://goo.gl/gEgYUd").into(imageView);
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Development activity
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- Commits (last 30 days)
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- Open PRs
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- Stars
- 35,020
- Forks
- 6,172
- Watchers
- 1,034
- Open issues
- 591
- Contributors
- 136
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- Primary language
- Java
- License
- Not determined
- Repository last updated
- Oct 6, 2026
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