Sketch Image Loader

Translations: 简体中文

Sketch is an image loading library specially designed for Compose Multiplatform and Android View. It
has the following features:

Multiple sources: Supports loading images from multiple sources such as http, file,
compose resource, android asset/content/resource, etc.
Powerful functions: Supports three-level caching, automatically cancels requests, automatically
adjusts image size, automatically rotates images according to Exif Orientation, etc.
Rich functions: Supports Animated image, SVG images, Base64 images, and video frames
Easy to expand: Supports expansion of various aspects such as caching, decoding, transformation,
transition, placeholder, etc.
Extended functions: Practical extensions such as pausing downloads when cellular data is
provided, pausing loading during list scrolling, image type badges, download progress indicators,
etc.
Modern: Completely based on Kotlin and Kotlin coroutine design

Sample App

For Android, iOS, desktop version, and web deployable packages, please go to
the Releases page to download.
Web example：https://panpf.github.io/sketch/app

Install

Published to mavenCentral

${LAST_VERSION}: (Not included 'v')

Compose Multiplatform:

Import the required Compose and network modules:

kotlin
// Provides the core functions of Sketch as well as singletons and extension 
// functions that rely on singleton implementations
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-compose:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Provides the ability to load network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http:${LAST_VERSION}")

[!IMPORTANT]
To improve the performance of compose, please copy compose_compiler_config.conf under
the sketch-core module file to your project and configure it according to
the Compose Stability Configuration documentation

Android View:

Import the required View and network modules:

kotlin
// Provides the core functions of Sketch as well as singletons and extension 
// functions that rely on singleton implementations
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-view:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Provides the ability to load network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http:${LAST_VERSION}")

Optional modules:

kotlin
// Use Android or Skia's built-in decoder to decode gif animations and play them
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-animated-gif:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Use the GifDrawable of the android-gif-drawable library to decode and play gif animations
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-animated-gif-koral:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Android or Skia's built-in decoder decodes heif animations and plays them
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-animated-heif:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Use Android or Skia's built-in decoder to decode webp animations and play them
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-animated-webp:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Use awxkee's avif-decoder library to decode avi and heif images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-avif-awxkee:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Supports BlurHash format image
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-blurhash:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Support accessing compose resources through uri or placeholder, fallback, error, etc.
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-compose-resources:${LAST_VERSION}")
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-extensions-compose-resources:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Provides practical functions such as download progress, image type icons, 
//  pausing loading during list scrolling, and saving cellular traffic.
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-extensions-compose:${LAST_VERSION}")
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-extensions-view:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Support icon loading of apk files via file path 
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-extensions-apkicon:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Support loading icons of installed apps by package name and version code
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-extensions-appicon:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [JVM only] Support using HttpURLConnection to access network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http-hurl:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [JVM only] Support using OkHttp to access network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http-okhttp:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Supports using ktor version 2.x to access network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http-ktor2:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Supports using ktor version 3.x to access network images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-http-ktor3:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Provides koin integration support, instead of sketch-compose and sketch-view, 
// and obtains Sketch instances from koin by default
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-compose-koin:${LAST_VERSION}")
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-view-koin:${LAST_VERSION}")

// Support SVG images
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-svg:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Use Android's built-in MediaMetadataRetriever class to decode video frames
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-video:${LAST_VERSION}")

// [Android only] Decoding video frames using wseemann's FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever library
implementation("io.github.panpf.sketch4:sketch-video-ffmpeg:${LAST_VERSION}")

[!TIP]

sketch-compose, sketch-view Modules all depend on the singleton provided by
the sketch-singleton module. If you don’t need the singleton, you can directly rely on
their *-core version.

The sketch-http module depends on sketch-http-hurl on jvm platforms and sketch-http-ktor3
on non-jvm platforms.

Register component

Sketch supports automatic discovery and registration of Fetcher and Decoder components, which are
implemented through ServiceLoader on the JVM platform and through the @EagerInitialization
annotation on non-JVM platforms.

All built-in modules support automatic registration. If you want to disable automatic registration,
please refer to the documentation for manual
registration: 《Register component》

R8 / Proguard

Android, iOS, Web and other platforms do not need to configure any obfuscation rules

The following obfuscation rules are required for desktop platforms:

proguard
# -------------------------- Sketch Privider ---------------------------- #
-keep class * implements com.github.panpf.sketch.util.ComponentProvider { *; }

It may also be necessary to add obfuscation configurations to the indirect dependencies of
three-party libraries such as Kotlin Coroutines, OkHttp, Okio

Quickly Started

Compose Multiplatform:

kotlin
// val imageUri = "/Users/my/Downloads/image.jpg"
// val imageUri = file:///compose_resource/composeResources/com.github.panpf.sketch.sample.resources/files/sample.png
val imageUri = "https://www.sample.com/image.jpg"

AsyncImage(
    uri = imageUri,
    contentDescription = "photo"
)

AsyncImage(
    uri = imageUri,
    state = rememberAsyncImageState(ComposableImageOptions {
        placeholder(Res.drawable.placeholder)
        error(Res.drawable.error)
        crossfade()
        // There is a lot more...
    }),
    contentDescription = "photo"
)

AsyncImage(
    rqeuest = ComposableImageRequest(imageUri) {
        placeholder(Res.drawable.placeholder)
        error(Res.drawable.error)
        crossfade()
        // There is a lot more...
    },
    contentDescription = "photo"
)

Image(
    painter = rememberAsyncImagePainter(
        request = ComposableImageRequest(imageUri) {
            placeholder(Res.drawable.placeholder)
            error(Res.drawable.error)
            crossfade()
            // There is a lot more...
        }
    ),
    contentDescription = "photo"
)

[!TIP]
placeholder(Res.drawable.placeholder) needs to import the sketch-compose-resources module

Android View:

kotlin
// val imageUri = "/sdcard/download/image.jpg"
// val imageUri = "file:///android_asset/image.jpg"
// val imageUri = "content://media/external/images/media/88484"
val imageUri = "https://www.sample.com/image.jpg"

imageView.loadImage(imageUri)

imageView.loadImage(imageUri) {
    placeholder(R.drawable.placeholder)
    error(R.drawable.error)
    crossfade()
    // There is a lot more...
}

val request = ImageRequest(context, imageUri) {
    placeholder(R.drawable.placeholder)
    error(R.drawable.error)
    crossfade()
    target(imageView)
    // There is a lot more...
}
context.sketch.enqueue(request)

Documents

Basic functions:

Featured functions:

Change log

Please review the CHANGELOG.md file

Test Platform

Android: Emulator; Arm64; API 21-34
Desktop: macOS; 14.6.1; JDK 17
iOS: iphone 16 simulator; iOS 18.1
Web: Chrome; 130

Run Sample App

Prepare the environment:

Android Studio: Norwhal+ (2025.1.1+)
JDK: 17+
Use kdoctor to check the running environment and follow the prompts to install the required
software
Android Studio installs the Kotlin Multiplatform plugin

Run the sample app:

Clone the project and open it using Android Studio
After synchronization is completed, the Kotlin Multiplatform plug-in will automatically create
a running configuration for each platform.
Select the corresponding platform's running configuration, and then click Run

About version 4.0

The maven groupId is upgraded to io.github.panpf.sketch4, so versions 2.* and 3.* will not
prompt for upgrade
Version 4.0 is specially built for Compose Multiplatform, so there are many breaking changes in
the API, please upgrade with caution
Version 4.0 has made a lot of simplifications and is much simpler than version 3.0, please check
the update log for details
Android minimum API raised to API 21
Kotlin version upgraded to 2.0.0

Special thanks

coil-kt/coil: Sketch uses some code from Coil, including framework, compose and
sketch-animated movie part
koral--/android-gif-drawable: animated-koralgif
wseemann/FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever: video-ffmpeg
BigBadaboom/androidsvg: svg

My Projects

The following are my other open source projects. If you are interested, you can learn about them:

zoomimage: Library for zoom images, supported Android View,
Compose and Compose Multiplatform; supported double-click zoom, One or two fingers gesture zoom,
single-finger drag, inertial sliding, positioning, rotation, super-large image subsampling and
other functions.
assembly-adapter: A library on Android that provides
multi-type Item implementations for various adapters. Incidentally, it also provides the most
powerful divider for RecyclerView.
sticky-item-decoration: RecyclerView sticky item
implementation