Picasso Load Image into Target

Question

I\'m using Picasso to download various images. Usually, I just display these in an ImageView but in this situation, I want to hold a strong reference to them so

Answer 1

Picasso holds Target instance with a weak reference, So your Target seems to be garbage collected.
see: https://github.com/square/picasso/issues/352

It is better to hold Target as an instance field.

public class MapLayer {

    ...

    private Target target;

    private void downloadIcon() {

        ...

        target = new Target() {
            ...
        };

        ImageDownloader.getSharedInstance().load(url).into(target);
    }
}

Answer 2

Its because Picasso only keeps a weak reference to the Target object.

If you want to have a strong reference I'd recommend tagging the Target to the View.
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