UITableView with Asynchronous Image Downloads

It seems that a lot of applications Im working on these days require a table view which downloads images off the web. Doing this synchronously is very messy and only results in a very laggy application while scrolling, so I found a nice solution by markj of markj.net.

He’s created an AsyncImageView class which allows you to supply a URL, and have it download the image in the background. This works nicely for a table view, and makes for a tidy solution to the asynchronous image downloading problem.

The original blog post about it is here. A packaged up version of a sample application including the table view code which downloads a series of images dynamically is available on my site here.

Its saved me a bunch of work and thanks must go to MarkJ, Robert A and Wayne who put together the original Yellow Jacket code.