Ffimageloading: Is this project supported anymore?

[Tommigun1980]

🏗 Enhancement Proposal

Hi and thanks for a great plugin that a lot of people rely on!

Unfortunately it doesn't seem that this project is really maintained anymore, which puts us all at risk if this really is the case.
Could a developer please confirm if this project is still alive, and if it is on life support could it be transferred to a new steward?

The reason I am asking is that so many people rely on this and I haven't seen anyone replying to tickets for months. I personally have reported several crash bugs but there is no correspondence, and this worries me.

Looking forward to being informed on the state of FFImageLoading and once again a huge thank you!

[IainS1986]

So I guess the answer is maybe, 'No'.

So do people have any other project/repo suggestions for an alternative to FFImageLoading?

[giuseppenovielli]

I suggest to moved FFImageLoading into Xamarin Forms Community Toolkit.

I thinks is the best place to contonuos support this project.

[Tommigun1980]

Maybe it could be polled what features people use from it and move only
over what people actually use?

(I, for one, only need the caching aspects. Imho Xamarin.Foms's image
should handle that natively out of the box as it's such a common use case.
Iirc it's at least partially accomplishable via image sources, but
FFImageLoading makes it so convenient with its caching properties - just
set up different styles for images that should be cached to disk and for
memory-cached images and off you go. Preloading should also be supported.)

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:18 AM Giuseppe Novielli [e-mail]
wrote:

I suggest to moved FFImageLoading into Xamarin Forms Community Toolkit.

I thinks is the best place to contonuos support this project.

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[giuseppenovielli]

@daniel-luberda what you thinks?

[giuseppenovielli]

@Tommigun1980 i think, i must create a discussion into Xamarin Forms Community Toolkit, and check Microsoft's engineers with community can continue supporting this project, merging into XamarinCommunityToolkit...

I thinks a lot of developers use FFImageLoading with Xamarin.Forms....

[nikossaperas]

I actually use it but not with Xamarin Forms but in seperate Xamarin Android and Xamarin iOS projects. Xamarin Comunity Toolkit is avaliable only for Xamarin Forms, something not convenient for me and all other users like myself.

[IainS1986]

Yes, this shouldn't move to a Forms only repository as it will greatly restrict its use cases. Xamarin Native would need to be supported outside of Toolkit.

However when I posed the question if anyone had alternatives, I was meaning if people had found other solutions or alternatives to drop FFImageLoading. I can't see this getting moved somewhere else and being maintained.

[nikossaperas]

An alternative would be GlideX but again it's for Forms only. And of course it's not providing everything FFImageLoading provides.
Additionally there is SquarePicasso, but I had memory issues while testing on old phones, so not very happy with it.

I believe loading images is something crucial that Xamarin Essentials might be able to provide.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/glidex-fast-images-android/

https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents/tree/master/Android/SquarePicasso

[nikossaperas]

I have proposed a feature request for an Image Loading Library in Xamarin Essentials. However, it is not considered the best place for a feature like this. According to jamesmontemagno this "is best to live in Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI for UI specifics". Based on his answer, a question: If somethig lives in Xamarin Forms and .NET MAUI will it be available for Xamarin Native also?

https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials/issues/1695

[giuseppenovielli]

@nikossaperas Xamarin.Forms is based on Xamarin.Native...

if there is not Xamarin.Native, there is not Xamarin.Forms...

Xamarin.Forms is an architecture to use Xamarin.Native cross-platform....

So your question 'Based on his answer, a question: If something lives in Xamarin Forms and .NET MAUI will it be available for Xamarin Native also?'

No, why Xamarin.Forms has an architecture designed for cross-platform App, but code behind Xamarin.Forms is Xamarin.Native.

[jslachta]

@nikossaperas, the question should be put in the XCT (Xamarin Community Toolkit) instead.

[nikossaperas]

@giuseppenovielli @jslachta
Ok, thanks very much and sorry about the out of context question.

[IainS1986]

@nikossaperas, the question should be put in the XCT (Xamarin Community Toolkit) instead.

As has already been said. This project supports Xamarin Native. Putting it in XCT reduces the scope of the project significantly and would make it unusable to a lot of developers.

Its should not become Xamarin Forms only just so it gets maintained. Especially as internally it would be working natively anyway.

[rscholey]

I am reading the suggestions about adding to Xamarin Forms Community Toolkit and wondering. Is the functionality of this code not already available in ResizetizerNT and would that not be a better source of code? I thought MAUI was already going to have something to create images in the different projects so is there even any need for a product like this to be added to XFCT?

[giuseppenovielli]

@rscholey ResizetizerNT has async image loading?

I'm personally use FFImageLoading for async loading, that is powerful into ListView.
SVG, yes there is ResizetizerNT....

[ndastur]

@daniel-luberda I think there are a few people that would be grateful for a reply on this one. We all understand that sometimes projects can't be maintained anymore. Just let us know if you can't support anymore and then also consider handing it on?