Benefits of using coil for bundled images

[ubuntudroid]

If I want to show a bundled image (i.e. R.drawable.my_image), is there any benefit of using coil via AsnycImage for that instead of directly using Image? Especially performance-wise.

We have a rather long onboarding in our app in a ViewPager with lots of images in there and I want to remove some lags when swiping to the next page likely caused by image loading and rendering. Those images are all bundled with the app. Would using coil improve the situation in such a case?

[colinrtwhite]

It should; Compose's built-inImage decodes the image on the main thread. It's the same for ImageView.setImageResource when using views. AsyncImage moves all the work to a background thread, which will reduce UI lag.

[ubuntudroid]

Great, many thanks! 🙏