Sniff (Under Active Development)

A Fast Kotlin JVM Image Loader/Cacher

Sniff is a simple network image loader and cacher for Kotlin JVM, it supports the new jetpack compose ui for desktop 🔥.It is inspired from Picasso for android and built on the top of Ktor Client as a default client.

TO DO

• Create Image Disk Loader
• Create factories for each service.
• Add fade option upon rendering.
• Enhance fallbacks and retries of network calls, apply them in the correct way.
• Project modularization.
• Option to apply image color filters in an easy way
• Option to add place holder when loading
• improve the jetpack compose ui component
• Remove the dependency on jetpack compose ui, so this library can be used on all platforms
• Change caching strategies on runtime
• Change Loader types on runtime
• Change HttpClient on runtime
• Add GIF support

DOING

• Create Disk caching.

Project Structure

• -> cache: All caching strategies with a single access point
• -> component: Jetpack ui image view component
• -> loader: All types of loaders Online,Offline and both
• -> service: contains HTTPClients to dowload the image (currently KTOR)
• -> sniff: will be the public access point for library users.

How To use

NetworkImage(url = URL,scope = coroutineScope)

The project depends on

Sniff is currently extended with the following plugins.

Plugin	VERSION
KTOR	1.5.1

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

Fork and submit a pull request, you can start with one of the

TO DO

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!