Use glidex only on subclass

[Almis90]

Is there any way to make glidex work only on my own custom subclass? e.g.

public class GlideImage : Image
{

}

and leave all my Image as they are?

[jonathanpeppers]

You'd probably need to include glidex.forms source code in your project, and change this custom renderer:

glidex/glidex.forms/ImageRenderer.cs

Lines 4 to 8 in e9158ef

	[assembly: ExportRenderer (typeof (Image), typeof (Android.Glide.ImageRenderer))]
	namespace Android.Glide
	{
	public class ImageRenderer : Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FastRenderers.ImageRenderer

To something like [assembly: ExportRenderer (typeof (GlideImage), typeof (Android.Glide.ImageRenderer))].

[Almis90]

That gave me an idea to make my own custom renderer and use the extensions for glide only where I need it. I didn't call Android.Glide.Forms.Init(this); in my MainActivity but I still had the issue where it doesn't show images from embedded resources. Does it still override something even if you don't call Init?

Edit: Nevermind found the code that causing it

[jonathanpeppers]

I think if you add glidex.forms to your project at all, it's going to use the above ImageRenderer. The Init() method is mainly there to ensure the linker doesn't remove it -- if you use it other places, same thing.

[Almis90]

For my case commenting out stream image source worked, now my embedded resources are not handled by ImageViewHandler. It's a temporary solution until I find more time to for a better solution.

//[assembly: ExportImageSourceHandler (typeof (StreamImageSource), typeof (Android.Glide.ImageViewHandler))]