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Android 8: Image Processing with Picasso
Android apps often require dynamic image content in order to meet modern design standards. In this course, you will learn how to use the Picasso Image Library to work with images, such as managing request activity, caching, transformations, and more.
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Android 8: Image Processing with Picasso
Android apps often require dynamic image content in order to meet modern design standards. In this course, you will learn how to use the Picasso Image Library to work with images, such as managing request activity, caching, transformations, and more.
Beginner
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What you'll learn
As you learn to develop for Android you’ll quickly want to enhance your apps with dynamic image content. In this course, Android 8: Image Processing with Picasso you’ll learn how to manage and process images in using Picasso. First, you'll learn how Picasso is a popular, reusable, and lightweight library that reduces the technical problems of working with images. Next, you’ll learn how to utilize Picasso’s powerful features, like how to load images from different source locations, and maintain performance with caching. Finally, you’ll discover how to resize and transform images properly, manage request behavior, and much more. By the end of this course, you should feel comfortable building your own apps that display image content in dynamic ways.
Android 8: Image Processing with Picasso
Beginner
Table of contents
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Version Check | 22s
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Managing Images in Android Apps | 2m 48s
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Introducing Picasso | 3m
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Are You in the Right Place? | 1m 28s
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Touring the Sample Application | 2m 39s
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Demo: Touring the Sample Android Project | 2m 47s
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Demo: Adding Picasso to an Android Project | 1m 33s
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Demo: Retrieving and Displaying the First Image | 2m 44s
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Demo: Overview of the Image Web Service | 2m 5s
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Summary | 1m 20s
Alex Wolf is passionate about software development and mastering new technologies. He has several years of experience working almost exclusively with the .NET Framework and related platforms. Alex is also a Microsoft Certified Professional in both MVC Application development and HTML 5 technologies. He loves learning new things!