Potential problems with skipMemoryCache() in Picasso?

Question

I have a main DashboardActivity that uses a REST client to grab photos from a staging server. I found that when I would load the Bitmap from the server into an ImageButton it would throw a OutOfMemoryError. I solved this issue with using .skipMemoryCache() like so:

Picasso.with(this)
       .load(imageUrl)
       .skipMemoryCache()
       .into(imageButton);

What would be some potential problems I would run into with this approach?

Answer 1

You should not use skipMemoryCache now, because it is deprecated. Here is some discussion about this method. Instead of using skipMemoryCache you should use memoryPolicy(MemoryPolicy policy, MemoryPolicy... additional).