Automatically retry image requests after regaining network connectivity

[Ismail Nurudeen]

I am using the code below to load images from a URL into the target imageview
When i try to load the images without internet connection,the error image is displayed,then if i turn on internet connection,unlike Glide, Coil doesn't try to reload the images from the URL.

 fun loadImageWithCoil(
        target: ImageView,
        imgUrl: String?,
        placeHolder: Int = R.drawable.profile_pic_placeholder,
        errorImg:Int=R.drawable.ic_terrain_black_24dp
    ) {
        target.load(imgUrl) {
            placeholder(placeHolder)
            crossfade(true)
            error(errorImg)
        }

    }

Is this currently not possible or I'm not doing it right?.

[Colin White]

Yep, this is currently not implemented. Coil will automatically force reading from the disk cache if you're offline, but it won't restart a request when you come back online.

[Ismail Nurudeen]

Is there a reason associated with Coil's nature or performance why this is currently not implemented or it's something we should be expecting soon?

[Colin White]

@ElNuru247 I think this could be implemented, though it's low priority. I've shied away from adding it so far as I'm not sure how much complexity it would add to Coil.

[Mario Đanić]

I would assume "lots". Network connectivity is different from being able to load something from network for various reasons.

[Magnum Rocha]

Any progress on this point? or anybody here has some workaround for this use case?

I am using Coil to show an image library (from the internet) on a RecyclerView, and I would like to refresh the images not loaded when the device regaining network connectivity.

[ShowMeThe]

Is there possible to retry the failed net-work request delay after 1s or 3s or notify the failed request when net-work switch WIFI from 4G or switch 4G from WIFI if the view or the lifecycle is still alive ? I do think that the way to automatically retry image requests after regaining network connectivity is not easy to solve it , because the net-work has complicated situation .

[Romuald OUATTARA]

Fresco has tap to reload (after a failure). Maybe coil can do the same ?

[Obolrom]

@colinrtwhite, hi. Any updates on this issue?