Android glide not loading pictures in Android 4.X

Question

I am using Glide v4.11 to load pictures from the web, everything work fine in android 5.0 or higher but in android 4.X pictures do not load.

Here is my code:

 RequestOptions options = new RequestOptions()
                    .placeholder(android.R.drawable.progress_horizontal)
                    .error(android.R.drawable.presence_offline)
                    .diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.ALL);

   Glide.with(context)
                    .load(data.getImage_url())
                    .apply(options)
                    .into(holder.thumbnail);

and here is the LogCat on Android 4.4:

W/Glide: Load failed for https://www.gradientapi.xyz/generate/w/1000/h/500 with size [188x263]
    class com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.GlideException: Failed to load resource
    There was 1 cause:
    javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException(javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0xb85422a0: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
    error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:766 0xa744e990:0x00000000))
     call GlideException#logRootCauses(String) for more detail
      Cause (1 of 1): class com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.GlideException: Fetching data failed, class java.io.InputStream, REMOTE
    There was 1 cause:
    javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException(javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0xb85422a0: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
    error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:766 0xa744e990:0x00000000))
     call GlideException#logRootCauses(String) for more detail
        Cause (1 of 1): class com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.GlideException: Fetch failed
    There was 1 cause:
    javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException(javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0xb85422a0: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
    error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:766 0xa744e990:0x00000000))
     call GlideException#logRootCauses(String) for more detail
          Cause (1 of 1): class javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0xb85422a0: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
    error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol (external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:766 0xa744e990:0x00000000)

I searched over web and i found that Android 4.4 only support TLS 1.0.

It may be the issue? and if yes is there any solutions?

Answer 1

It's a handshake exception. On devices older than Android 5.0 TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 protocols are not enabled by default and that's why this exception occurs.

You can try this inside your Application's class onCreate method:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == 19) {
        try {
            ProviderInstaller.installIfNeeded(this);
        } catch (Exception ignored) {
        }
    }

Also, You can check this github issue for better solutions.

Answer 2

I ran into this problem on API 30. It was weird, I was using Retrofit with okhttp just fine to access other things on the same server, but when I tried to use Glide to load an image, I got the dreaded:

SSLProtocolException: Read error: ssl=0xe78f6a18: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error

I saw various posts about much older Android versions having problems with TLS1.2 but that wasn't the issue. It seems like Glide has a dependency on an older version of OKHttp and that was the problem. Or something like that, not exactly sure, but I did fix it with this in my gradle file:

implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.12.0'
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:okhttp3-integration:4.12.0'

It seems like the okhttp3-integration is what fixes it. I'm posting this here for anyone else who gets stumped by this and does some searches.