ImageSources

The .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Image displays an image that can be loaded from a local file, a URI, an embedded resource, or a stream. The standard platform image formats are supported, including animated GIFs, and local Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files are also supported. For more information about the Image control, see Image.

Any control that has a property of type ImageSource, can specify the source of an image. The ImageSource property has the following methods that can be used to load an image from different sources:

• FromFile returns a FileImageSource that reads an image from a local file.
• FromUri returns an UriImageSource that downloads and reads an image from a specified URI.
• FromResource returns a StreamImageSource that reads an image file embedded in an assembly.
• FromStream returns a StreamImageSource that reads an image from a stream that supplies image data.

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit ImageSources

The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit provides a collection of additional pre-built, reusable ImageSources to make developers lives easier. Here are the sources provided by the toolkit:

View	Description
GravatarImageSource	The GravatarImageSource provides an Image source to display a users Gravatar registered image via their email address.