Picasso: Easy Image Loading on Android

Due to the popularity of the Picasso blog post series published on the Future Studio blog, and the positive feedback on our Retrofit book, we’ve decided to publish a book on Picasso. If your Android app uses images, this book will save you a ton of time researching and avoid stressful evenings of bug fixes. If you value your time, this might be something for you.

We cover all topics from the blog post series and additionally add more explanations to each topic and the example code snippets. Besides a more coherent introduction to Picasso, you’ll also benefit from more new, book-exclusive advanced topics.

This book is for beginners and advanced readers as well. We’ll walk you through each topic with direct reference to code examples. Once you’ve worked through this book, you’ll have an extensive knowledge of image loading on Android with Picasso.

What Topics are Covered in this Book?

The list below provides a comprehensive overview of covered topics within the book.

Introduction to Picasso
Loading and Displaying Images
Placeholders, Resizing and Optimized Request Management
Image Rotation and Transformations
Caches are Critical
Customizing Picasso
Practical Code Examples
App Release Preparations