android - image quality is low when using glide

Question

I'm new to android developing. In my app, I have a horizontalScrollView that contains images. Later I have been using Picasso to load images from URL. Then I heard about glide so I switched to glide and now my image loading is fast but the quality of images is too low.

code below

//load image from URL 1.1
        ivImageFromURL = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.videoconwmimage);
        Glide.with(this).load("http://imgur.com/KtfpVUb.png").into(ivImageFromURL);

Looks like your image is not high resolution image – Piyush Feb 24 '17 at 08:19 — Piyush, Feb 24 '17 at 08:19
when I'm using picasso the image looks fine... – Simon Feb 24 '17 at 08:21 — Simon, Feb 24 '17 at 08:21

score 32 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '18 at 19:30

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If you are using Glide v4, then when making Glide requests, change

Glide.with(imageView).load(url).into(imageView);

to

Glide.with(imageView).load(url)
    .apply(new RequestOptions()
            .fitCenter()
            .format(DecodeFormat.PREFER_ARGB_8888)
            .override(Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL))
    .into(imageView);

That did the trick for me without having to add anything to the manifest. It might help to also add android:adjustViewBounds="true" to your ImageView in XML. The classes are

import com.bumptech.glide.load.DecodeFormat;
import com.bumptech.glide.request.RequestOptions;
import com.bumptech.glide.request.target.Target;

answered Aug 28 '18 at 19:30

Leo Aso

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I success with just `override(Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL)`. Why you call `fitCenter()` and `format()`? And I success with just `dontTransform()` too. – illusionJJ Nov 15 '18 at 11:54
this one fixed my problem. – Maduro Aug 25 '21 at 22:02
Perhaps we should use `dontTransform()` instead of `fitCenter()`? - https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues/531#issuecomment-120012741 – Cheok Yan Cheng Nov 22 '21 at 17:08
Thanks a lot for `.override(Target.SIZE_ORIGINAL)`. – Chirag Savsani Aug 30 '22 at 11:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 08:33

This is because Glide default Bitmap Format is set to RGB_565 since it consumed just 50% memory footprint compared to ARGB_8888 used by Picasso.

you can fix it making following changes:

public class GlideConfiguration implements GlideModule {

    @Override
    public void applyOptions(Context context, GlideBuilder builder) {
        // Apply options to the builder here.
        builder.setDecodeFormat(DecodeFormat.PREFER_ARGB_8888);
    }

    @Override
    public void registerComponents(Context context, Glide glide) {
        // register ModelLoaders here.
    }
}

And add following to your manifest:

<meta-data android:name="com.inthecheesefactory.lab.glidepicasso.GlideConfiguration"
            android:value="GlideModule"/>

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 08:26

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Please check this link

Glide loads with lower image quality

https://github.com/bumptech/glide/issues/1227

answered Feb 24 '17 at 08:26

vinod

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 08:33

Glide uses RGB_565 not to use too much memory. If defaults dont seem fine to you, you can use Glide.Builder and set builder.setDecodeFormat(DecodeFormat.ALWAYS_ARGB_8888); as your preferred configuration.

https://github.com/bumptech/glide/wiki/Configuration check the link.

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