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Coil

Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

From coil-kt·Updated June 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

An image loading library for [Android](https://www.android.com/) and [Compose Multiplatform](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/). Coil is: The project is written primarily in Kotlin, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 11,820 stars and 763 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: android, androidx, compose, compose-multiplatform, coroutines.

Latest release: 3.5.0
June 10, 2026View Changelog →

Coil

An image loading library for Android and Compose Multiplatform. Coil is:

  • Fast: Coil performs a number of optimizations including memory and disk caching, downsampling the image, automatically pausing/cancelling requests, and more.
  • Lightweight: Coil only depends on Kotlin, Coroutines, and Okio and works seamlessly with Google's R8 code shrinker.
  • Easy to use: Coil's API leverages Kotlin's language features for simplicity and minimal boilerplate.
  • Modern: Coil is Kotlin-first and interoperates with modern libraries including Compose, Coroutines, Okio, OkHttp, and Ktor.

Coil is an acronym for: Coroutine Image Loader.

Translations: 日本語, 한국어, Русский, Svenska, Türkçe, 中文, پارسی, O'zbekcha

Quick Start

Import the Compose library and a networking library:

kotlin
implementation("io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-compose:3.5.0") implementation("io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-network-okhttp:3.5.0")

To load an image, use the AsyncImage composable:

kotlin
AsyncImage( model = "https://example.com/image.jpg", contentDescription = null, )

Check out Coil's full documentation here.

License

Copyright 2026 Coil Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

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