Android. When to parse photos from the site?

Question

Android

The user adds a URL to the profile in the application. I need to get a profile photo from this url. At what point do you do it?
Create a service and it will download photos periodically or immediately in a separate stream, or how is it done? I'm just a newbie.

Answer 1

My advice to you is to use special libraries for such tasks. For example here: square.github.io/picasso