Sharpnado.Maui.Nuke

Maui.Nuke

Since MAUI, the Android platform get a native caching library: Glide. Unfortunately on, iOS, there is no native caching...

Maui.Nuke is here to repair this injustice by implementing image caching with the fastest and most popular ios native caching library: Nuke.

Moreover, once installed, it is completly transparent to the user, you use your Image views just like before, all the work is done under the hood.

This project is using the NukeProxy library, which is a Swift .net6 proxy to the nuke native library. The new binding and the packaging has been done by the great @cheesebaron. Hail to the Cheese!

Current version of the Nuke library is 10.3.1.

Installation

public static MauiApp CreateMauiApp()
{
    var builder = MauiApp.CreateBuilder();
    builder
        .UseMauiApp<App>()
        .UseNuke(showDebugLogs: false);
}

BOOM

You just achieved 90%+ memory reduction when manipulating Image views.

Known Issues

Maui.Nuke cannot cache images coming from the Asset Catalog:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/app-fundamentals/images-icons/displaying-an-image

This is due to the fact that the Asset Catalogue is packed in the ipa, and you cannot get an image URI from it. Since version 8.4.1, it will however cache correctly images respecting the density convention (@2x, @3x) locating in your Resources folder (see Issue #13).