I have been seeing very long load times for images in our app using Glide 3.6 + a RecyclerView using a GridLayoutManager. The images are all around 20kb-40kb. It seems that glid
Add following lines and you will see the improvement
recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true); yourAdapter.setHasStableIds(true);//recycler adapter
override onViewRecycled() & clear previous Glide request
Glide.with(imageHolder.preview.getContext()).clear(imageHolder.preview);