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Android

Posted by orb
orb
114 Points

Ribbit..why load images directly from the web instead of DL to device?

So in the Ribbit app, Ben uses Picasso to load the images stored on the Parse backend via a web URL. Is there a particular reason for this? Why not download the ParseFile and display the image locally?