Android Smart Image View

Overview

SmartImageView is a drop-in replacement for Android’s standard ImageView which additionally allows images to be loaded from URLs or the user’s contact address book. Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading.

Features

Drop-in replacement for ImageView
Load images from a URL
Load images from the phone’s contact address book
Asynchronous loading of images, loading happens outside the UI thread
Images are cached to memory and to disk for super fast loading
SmartImage class is easily extendable to load from other sources

Installation & Basic Usage

Download the latest .jar file from github and place it in your Android app’s libs/ folder.

Add a SmartImageView to your activity’s xml layout:

<com.loopj.android.image.SmartImageView
    android:id="@+id/my_image" />

Get a reference to the layout’s SmartImageView:

SmartImageView myImage = (SmartImageView) this.findViewById(R.id.my_image);

Load an image into the view from a URL:

myImage.setImageUrl("http://www.awesomeimages.com/myawesomeimage.jpg");

Load an image into the view from the phone’s contact address book:

myImage.setImageContact(contactAddressBookId);

Reporting Bugs or Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the github issues page for this project here:

https://github.com/loopj/android-smart-image-view/issues

License

The Android Smart Image View is released under the Android-friendly Apache License, Version 2.0. Read the full license here:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

About the Author

I'm James Smith, CTO of heyzap.com. Originally from London, UK I now live in San Francisco.

James Smith • loopj.com