How can load the images with the Glide in ImageSwitcher

Question

For creating image slide show , I want to use image switcher with timer . I read this blog post it's very clear but it doesn't load images from network . Now i want load images from network with Glide Library .

This is MainActivity :

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private ImageSwitcher imageSwitcher;

    private int[] gallery = { http://www.helloworld.com/image1.png, http://www.helloworld.com/image2.png, http://www.helloworld.com/image3.png,
            http://www.helloworld.com/image4.png, };

    private int position;

    private static final Integer DURATION = 2500;

    private Timer timer = null;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        imageSwitcher = (ImageSwitcher) findViewById(R.id.imageSwitcher);
        imageSwitcher.setFactory(new ViewFactory() {

            public View makeView() {
                return new ImageView(MainActivity.this);
            }
        });

        // Set animations
        // https://danielme.com/2013/08/18/diseno-android-transiciones-entre-activities/
        Animation fadeIn = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade_in);
        Animation fadeOut = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.fade_out);
        imageSwitcher.setInAnimation(fadeIn);
        imageSwitcher.setOutAnimation(fadeOut);
    }

    // ////////////////////BUTTONS
    /**
     * starts or restarts the slider
     * 
     * @param button
     */
    public void start(View button) {
        if (timer != null) {
            timer.cancel();
        }
        position = 0;
        startSlider();
    }

    public void stop(View button) {
        if (timer != null) {
            timer.cancel();
            timer = null;
        }
    }

    public void startSlider() {
        timer = new Timer();
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

            public void run() {
                // avoid exception:
                // "Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views"
                runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                    public void run() {
                        imageSwitcher.setImageResource(gallery[position]);
                        position++;
                        if (position == gallery.length) {
                            position = 0;
                        }
                    }
                });
            }

        }, 0, DURATION);
    }

    // Stops the slider when the Activity is going into the background
    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        if (timer != null) {
            timer.cancel();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        if (timer != null) {
            startSlider();
        }

    }

}

I try to load images with glide but i don't know what should i do .

Answer 1

It's pretty easy to do, all you need is to load image using Glide to the ImageView that you can get from ImageSwitcher by method imageSwitcher.getCurrentView(). So you need to replace code inside run of your runOnUiThread method to the next code:

Glide.with(MainActivity.this)
    .load(gallery[position])
    .asBitmap()
    .listener(new RequestListener<String, Bitmap>() {
        @Override
        public boolean onException(Exception e, String model, Target<Bitmap> target, boolean isFirstResource) {
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, String model, Target<Bitmap> target, boolean isFromMemoryCache, boolean isFirstResource) {
            position++;
            if (position == gallery.length) {
                position = 0;
            }
            imageSwitcher.setImageDrawable(new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), resource));
            return true;
        }
    }).into((ImageView) imageSwitcher.getCurrentView());

Also don't forget to replace your image urls with appropriate urls (you now have there some dummy urls I see). So your gallery array should be a String[] array.

Don't forget also to include android.permission.INTERNET to your AndroidManifest.xml.

And finally you need to change android:layout_width property of your ImageSwitcher to match_parent in xml as Glide won't load image in it otherwise.