How do I use disk caching in Picasso?

Question

I am using Picasso to display image in my android app:

/**
* load image.This is within a activity so this context is activity
*/
public void loadImage (){
           


        

Answer 1

1) answer of first question : according to Picasso Doc for With() method

The global default Picasso instance returned from with() is automatically initialized with defaults that are suitable to most implementations.

• LRU memory cache of 15% the available application RAM
• Disk cache of 2% storage space up to 50MB but no less than 5MB.

But Disk Cache operation for global Default Picasso is only available on API 14+

2) answer of second Question : Picasso use the HTTP client request to Disk Cache operation So you can make your own http request header has property Cache-Control with max-age And create your own Static Picasso Instance instead of default Picasso By using

1] HttpResponseCache (Note: Works only for API 13+ )
2] OkHttpClient (Works for all APIs)

Example for using OkHttpClient to create your own Static Picasso class:

• First create a new class to get your own singleton picasso object

  import android.content.Context;
  import com.squareup.picasso.Downloader;
  import com.squareup.picasso.OkHttpDownloader;
  import com.squareup.picasso.Picasso;
  
  public class PicassoCache {
  
      /**
       * Static Picasso Instance
       */
      private static Picasso picassoInstance = null;
  
      /**
       * PicassoCache Constructor
       *
       * @param context application Context
       */
      private PicassoCache (Context context) {
  
          Downloader downloader   = new OkHttpDownloader(context, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
          Picasso.Builder builder = new Picasso.Builder(context);
              builder.downloader(downloader);
  
          picassoInstance = builder.build();
      }
  
      /**
       * Get Singleton Picasso Instance
       *
       * @param context application Context
       * @return Picasso instance
       */
      public static Picasso getPicassoInstance (Context context) {
  
          if (picassoInstance == null) {
  
              new PicassoCache(context);
              return picassoInstance;
          }
  
          return picassoInstance;
      }
  
  } 
  

• use your own singleton picasso object Instead of Picasso.With()

PicassoCache.getPicassoInstance(getContext()).load(imagePath).into(imageView)

3) answer for third question : you do not need any disk permissions for disk Cache operations

References: Github issue about disk cache, two Questions has been answered by @jake-wharton -> Question1 and Question2