I've been using for some time Android Http Image Manager, and recently I switched over to Android Universal Image Loader
I'm afraid neither of them have support for verifying if local cache is up-to-date.
What I'm currently looking for is an Image Loader library with community support and support for checking remote changes via ETag and/or If-Modified-Since
Question is answered from Github AUIL issue tracker. Thank you NOSTRA
https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader/issues/75
public class URLConnectionImageDownloader extends ImageDownloader {
@Override
public InputStream getStreamFromNetwork(URI imageUri) throws IOException {
URLConnection conn = imageUri.toURL().openConnection();
// check etag/last-modification-date/... params
// if image was changed then we should delete cached image from memory cache and disc cache
// Delete image from caches
String uri = imageUri.toString();
File imageFile = ImageLoader.getDiscCache().get(uri)
if (imageFile.exists()) {
imageFile.delete();
}
MemoryCacheAware<String, Bitmap memoryCache = ImageLoader.getMemoryCache();
for (String cacheKey : memoryCache.keys()) {
if (cacheKey.contains(uri) {
memoryCache.remove(cacheKey);
}
}
return new FlushedInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream()));
}
}