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FirebaseUI for Android — Storage

Using FirebaseUI to download and display images

Cloud Storage for Firebase provides secure file uploads and downloads for your Firebase apps, regardless of network quality. You can use it to store images, audio, video, or other user-generated content. Cloud Storage is a powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service.

FirebaseUI provides bindings to download an image file stored in Cloud Storage from a StorageReference and display it using the popular Glide library. This technique allows you to get all of Glide's performance benefits while leveraging Cloud Storage's authenticated storage capabilities.

To load an image from a StorageReference, simply use the FirebaseImageLoader class:

// Reference to an image file in Cloud Storage
StorageReference storageReference = ...;

// ImageView in your Activity
ImageView imageView = ...;

// Load the image using Glide
Glide.with(this /* context */)
        .using(new FirebaseImageLoader())
        .load(storageReference)
        .into(imageView);

Images displayed using FirebaseImageLoader are cached by their path in Cloud Storage, so repeated loads will be fast and conserve bandwidth. For more information on caching in Glide, see this guide.