# thest1/LazyList

Lazy load of images in Android

Repository: https://github.com/thest1/LazyList
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lazylist
Homepage: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541966/android-how-do-i-do-a-lazy-load-of-images-in-listview/3068012#3068012
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2018-10-10T12:11:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5575, "days_push": 2884, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1192, forks 489 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:56.421203+00:00)

## What it is
A simple Android library for lazily loading images into ListViews, GridViews, or ImageViews, downloading them asynchronously in the background. It caches images both in memory and on the SD card.

## Use cases
- lazy load images in an Android ListView
- asynchronously download and display images in a GridView
- cache remote images on SD card and memory in Android
- display images from URLs into an ImageView without blocking the UI thread

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Android app using ListView and want a minimal, dependency-free image loader
- you need a tiny MIT-licensed library with a one-line API for async image display

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new Android project - modern libraries like Glide, Coil, or Picasso are actively maintained and more capable
- you need advanced features like transformations, GIF support, or lifecycle integration

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, caching
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools
- platform: -
- tags: android, listview, image-loading, async, java, mobile

## Member repositories
- thest1/LazyList (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.421203+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 2026-08-30T06:22:38.839740+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thest1/LazyList (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:56.421203+00:00, sha 46a1863873ab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.