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Picasso v/s Imageloader v/s Fresco vs Glide

There are many different libraries available out there to load images when you develop Android applications. Picasso has been my favorite which is light weight, but functions provided are more or less similar to Imageloader and Glide. Most libs have callbacks but Fresco does not, which seems to have the best performance compared to all other libraries. So I thought, a simple comparison of these different libraries would help fellow developers when they want to select the best image download library for a specific requirement.
Fresco

(Cons)

    - Huge size of library
    - No Callback with View, Bitmap parameters
    - SimpleDraweeView doesn't support wrap_content
    - Huge size of cache

(Pros)

    - Pretty fast image loader (for small && medium images)
    - A lot of functionality(streaming, drawing tools, memory management, etc)
    - Possibility to setup directly in xml (for example round corners)
    - GIF support
    - WebP support

Picasso

(Cons)

    - Slow loading big images from internet into ListView

(Pros)

    - Tinny size of library
    - Small size of cache
    - Simple in use
    - UI is not freeze
    - WebP support

Glide

(Cons)

    - Big size of library

(+)

    - Tinny size of cache
    - Simple in use
    - GIF support
    - WebP support
    - Fast loading big images from internet into ListView
    - UI is not freeze
    - BitmapPool to re-use memory and thus lesser GC events

Not every library contains all functions. I usually use Picasso and Glide. If need speed and low quality go with Glide else Picasso would be good too with high quality images and caching.