Coil

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by Coil Contributors

Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform. Fast, lightweight, and easy to use.

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Coil

An image loading library for Android and Compose Multiplatform. Coil is:

  • Fast: Coil performs a number of optimizations including memory and disk caching, downsampling the image, automatically pausing/cancelling requests, and more.
  • Lightweight: Coil only depends on Kotlin, Coroutines, and Okio and works seamlessly with Google's R8 code shrinker.
  • Easy to use: Coil's API leverages Kotlin's language features for simplicity and minimal boilerplate.
  • Modern: Coil is Kotlin-first and interoperates with modern libraries including Compose, Coroutines, Okio, OkHttp, and Ktor.

Coil is an acronym for: Coroutine Image Loader.

Translations: 日本語, 한국어, Русский, Svenska, Türkçe, 中文, پارسی, O'zbekcha

Quick Start

Import the Compose library and a networking library:

implementation("io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-compose:3.3.0")
implementation("io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-network-okhttp:3.3.0")

To load an image, use the AsyncImage composable:

AsyncImage(
    model = "https://example.com/image.jpg",
    contentDescription = null,
)

Check out Coil's full documentation here.

License

Copyright 2025 Coil Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
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