Kotlin Android Studio-从newsapi加载缩略图

Question

I'm using this news api to pull the json data into my app and render it in my articlerecycler adapter class. From the api there is a json value urlToImage that contains the thumbnail that I need to render. Currently I have a working list of 20 or so articles displaying the author, title, description, etc.

What is the best way to show the thumbnails as well? Is using ImageView widget the best way to handle this?

For example,

    <ImageView
    android:id="@+id/thumbnailIv"
    android:layout_width="94dp"
    android:layout_height="93dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:contentDescription="@string/urlToImage"
    android:scaleType="fitCenter"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:srcCompat="@drawable/placeholder_image" />

I've found through other posts that picasso is a good way to lazy load images, specifically thumbnails.

    // load the image with Picasso
    Picasso.get()
            .load("") // load the image
            .into(thumbnailIv) // select the ImageVi

  }

Answer 1

Yes use ImageView and use library like Glide or picasso to load image into ImageView from the url

 GlideApp.with(context)
            .load(url)
            .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.DATA) //optional
            .placeholder(R.drawable.default_image)  //optional
            .error(R.drawable.default_image)  //optional
            .into(holder.imageNews);

With ImageView you can control ScaleType another useful property is android:adjustViewBounds="true" which will maintain aspect ratio . If you use use linear/relative and set image as background then you cannot control these properties