# facebook/fresco

An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.

Repository: https://github.com/facebook/fresco
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fresco
Homepage: https://frescolib.org/
Language: Kotlin
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:46:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 76, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4202, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 82, "gap_med": 42.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 17159, forks 3740 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:17.764568+00:00)

## What it is
Fresco is Facebook's Android library for loading, displaying, and managing images in mobile applications. It handles the full image pipeline with multi-level caching and special memory management to avoid OutOfMemoryError on older Android versions.

## Use cases
- load and display images from network or local storage in an Android app
- display animated GIFs and WebP images on Android
- show progressive JPEGs as they stream in
- reduce OutOfMemoryError crashes from bitmap-heavy image lists
- show a placeholder while an image loads and auto-release memory off-screen
- decode WebP images on older Android versions that lack native support
- cache images in memory and on disk to save data and CPU

## When to choose
- building an Android app with image-heavy feeds or lists
- you need animated GIF/WebP support with automatic memory management
- targeting low-end or older Android devices where bitmap memory is critical
- you want multi-level caching and progressive image loading out of the box

## When to avoid
- building for iOS, desktop, or web rather than Android
- your app displays few images and a simpler loader suffices
- you need a cross-platform solution like Glide alternatives for multi-platform code
- you require a Java-only dependency and cannot exclude native modules

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, caching, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, image-processing, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: image-loading, bitmap-memory-management, animated-gif, webp, progressive-jpeg, image-pipeline, drawee, placeholder-display, facebook, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- facebook/fresco (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.764568+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:03:29.290145+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/facebook/fresco (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:17.764568+00:00, sha 6cef214cdd94)
  - homepage: https://frescolib.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:28.906940+00:00, sha 1a48e1beaea3)
  - site_page: https://frescolib.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:28.942066+00:00, sha 9aac3d031103)
  - site_page: https://frescolib.org/docs/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:01:28.944264+00:00, sha 474057610d16)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.