Using Coil in Jetpack Compose: A Guide to Loading and Displaying Images

Jetpack Compose is a modern UI toolkit for building Android apps with Kotlin. One of the challenges of building UIs is loading and displaying images, which can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Fortunately, the Coil library provides a simple and efficient way to load and display images in Jetpack Compose.

What is Coil?

The coil is a fast, lightweight, and modern image-loading library for Android. It was created by Chris Banes, a Google Developer Expert for Android. Some of the features of Coil include:

• Loading images from URLs, files, and other sources.
• Caching images to improve performance and reduce network usage.
• Displaying fallback images if an image fails to load.
• Supporting image transformations, such as resizing, cropping, and blurring.

Coil is designed to be easy to use and integrate into your app, with a small footprint and minimal dependencies.

Adding Coil to your Jetpack Compose Project

To use Coil in your Jetpack Compose project, you need to add the Coil dependency to your project’s build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    implementation…