Maui.Nuke: native image caching for iOS

Nuke image caching library for dotnet MAUI.

Get it from NuGet:

Before, in Xamarin.Forms, to speed up our image loading we could use GlideX on Android, and Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS.

With this solution, we achieved a perfect efficient native image caching solution for both platform.

But since MAUI, the Android platform has integrated the Glide native library. No need to use GlideX now.
Unfortunately on iOS there is no integrated native caching...

It means the caching and performance of using images on iOS is not so great in terms of speed and memory usage.

But rejoice!

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

Moreover, once installed, it is completely 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);
}

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