Picasso and context

Question

I have been playing lately with Picasso as an image loader library. I use it in conjunction with Dagger and OkHtttp.

My only questions regarding this library are the us

Answer 1

It doesn't matter which you choose, when using the default Picasso.with(Context) method, or the Builder, it will retrieve the application Context from the given Context:

/** Start building a new {@link Picasso} instance. */
public Builder(Context context) {
  if (context == null) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Context must not be null.");
  }
  this.context = context.getApplicationContext();
}

_{Stub copied from Picasso.java#Builder.}

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If you actually want to create a new instance in each activity: For each instance of Picasso you create, you basically create a new cache: images cached in the first instance will not be reused in the second instance. You are very likely to run into OutOfMemoryExceptions here, as Picasso does not handle this.