How to use Fresco in Android?

Fresco, an image loading library developed by Facebook, is a powerful tool for handling images in Android applications. It’s particularly useful for efficiently loading and displaying large images, with its advanced features for caching and managing memory. Here’s a quick guide on using Fresco with Kotlin in Android.

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Setting Up Fresco 🎢

implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:fresco:2.6.0'

Initialize Fresco in your application’s onCreate method, typically in the Application class:

class App : Application() {
    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        Fresco.initialize(this)
    }
}

Make sure to also register the Application class in your AndroidManifest.xml:

<application
    android:name=".App"
    ...>
</application>

Please do not forget permission as we are displaying data from the internet.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Displaying Images 📸

Fresco uses SimpleDraweeView to display images. To use it in your layout XML file, add the following:

<com.facebook.drawee.view.SimpleDraweeView
        android:id="@+id/sdvQueenPhoto"…