android-picasso-toolbar-image-navigationicon.md

title: Android: Loading an NavigationIcon image into Toolbar via Picasso tags: android,android-databinding,android-toolbar,android-picasso

Let's first include the Picasso image loading library in our app's gradle file:

compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'

And in our beautiful AndroidManifest.xml let us not forget the all important permissions:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Let's now use Picasso to load our image into a mysterious Target:

Picasso.with(toolbar.getContext())
        .load("https://HELLOTHERE.com/YOURIMAGEHERE.png")
        .into(target);

What's the target? Well, since we're not loading directly into a ImageView, we need this object. It can't, apparently, be inline either, lest Picasso may garbage collect it. Here it is:

Target target = new Target() {
  @Override
  public void onBitmapLoaded(Bitmap bitmap, Picasso.LoadedFrom from) {
    Log.d("HIYA", "onBitmapLoaded");
    Bitmap b = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, 120, 120, false);
    BitmapDrawable icon = new BitmapDrawable(toolbar.getResources(), b);
    toolbar.setNavigationIcon(icon);
  }

  @Override
  public void onBitmapFailed(Drawable errorDrawable) {
    Log.d("HIYA", "onBitmapFailed");
  }

  @Override
  public void onPrepareLoad(Drawable placeHolderDrawable) {
    Log.d("HIYA", "onPrepareLoad");
  }
};

We get a reference to the toolbar, and set the navigation icon, after first resizing the image.

Actually, this may not be enough to ensure this isn't garbage collection. You could make it a field. Ensure you stop the Picasso loader it when your activity/fragment/dog dies.

If you want to go wild, crazy, put it in a BindingAdapter:

@BindingAdapter("app:loadingimage")
public static void setLoadingimage(final Toolbar toolbar, String s) {
...
}

And then in your XML, with databinding, set it like this:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:loadingimage="@{appState.avatarUrl}"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
    />

The fun thing about this is you may need to make the Target a static variable, else it may be garbage collected.