# Enhance Your Application Using Picasso

DevFeed: [Enhance Your Application Using Picasso](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/enhance-your-application-using-picasso-15627.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/enhance-your-application-using-picasso>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2013-05-14T16:03:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Jake Wharton](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jake-wharton.md>), [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Picasso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/picasso.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [picasso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/picasso.md>)

## AI overview

Square introduces Picasso, an open-source Android library for downloading, caching, displaying, and transforming images. The library is designed to be fast and simple to use, and it uses memory and disk caching to speed bitmap loading.

## Source excerpt

A fluent image downloading and caching library for Android.