square/picasso — pull request #512 by lucasr (2014-05-22 17:15:18+00:00)
Title: Support custom bitmap loading with a new RequestHandler API

I'm trying to streamline all (or most of) image loading code in Firefox for Android's UI around Picasso. We load images from sources that not supported by Picasso e.g. browser tab thumbnails, app icons from Android's PackageManager, images only accessible through a local Java API or through Gecko, etc.

I really want to avoid having to patch Picasso locally in order support our specific use cases. So, here's an idea: allow Picasso users to extend the library to load bitmaps from non-standard sources. The API docs and tests should hopefully demonstrate the general idea well enough. Let me know if something is not clear.

I'm not entirely happy with the class names (RequestHandler, Decoder, etc) and the API can probably be simplified a bit. Looking for some early feedback here.

Thoughts?