I’m working with a large number of 100kb-200kb images that I am hosting externally on remote storage and linking in-app through the direct URL in my spreadsheet. However, whenever I look at my data tables in Glide it looks like it is fetching the entire image. Can someone confirm if Glide is passin…

Can you say why you want to optimize images yourself? We optimize them in many ways—a different format for Android versus iOS, scaling them when used in lists to make lists scroll faster, caching them on our own CDN. You can’t do all of this in the spreadsheet with your own URLs, for example. And w…

@david I use cloudinary as my repository because: I like to keep control of my own images which isn’t possible at the moment at glide. I cannot delete images myself. I can specify how I want the images transformed e.g. rotated (and Overplayed with images and text) and specify that from within gl…

To echo what Krivo said, the ability to improve performance of my application. As I have increased the amount of content in my applications the load times have increased dramatically. Even on single-image pages it is taking upwards of 3 seconds to render a 100kb JPG hero image. Being able to add a…

[image] Blake_Howard: Being able to add additional edge nodes to my CDN, introduce load balancing, optimize caching rules, Our engineers do this automatically for all Glide apps, and much deeper than you can do it. For example, list item images get a thumbnailed .webp file to optimize loading…

WebP further answers my initial question as I’m testing exclusively on iOS devices that currently struggle with that format in Safari - which has to be used to properly set the PWA to my homescreen in iOS 12 & 13. You asked for additional details in your earlier replies so I provided them, but you …

We do not serve WebP on iOS — only on Android.

[image] Blake_Howard: personally attack your users Sorry, when I said that Glide engineers can optimize images “much deeper than you can do it,” I only meant that we have deeper access to the technical workings of Glide that allow us to optimize your images based on device Operating System, s…

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david August 31, 2020, 5:40pm 2

Glide optimizes and caches all images. There’s no way to disable this at the moment.

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