Using Facebook's Fresco to load a bitmap

Question

I\'m trying to replace Picasso in my android app with Fresco. However I am unsure of how to simply load a bitmap using Fresco.

With Picasso I would just do the foll

Answer 1

I found this solution using Kotlin's coroutines:

suspend fun getBitmapFromUri(imageUri: Uri): Bitmap = withContext(Dispatchers.Default) {
    val imageRequest = ImageRequestBuilder.newBuilderWithSource(imageUri).build()
    val dataSource = Fresco.getImagePipeline().fetchDecodedImage(imageRequest, this)
    val result = DataSources.waitForFinalResult(dataSource) as CloseableReference

    val bitmap = result.get().underlyingBitmap

    CloseableReference.closeSafely(result)
    dataSource.close()

    return@withContext bitmap
}