Set UIImageView image using a url

Question

Is it possible to read a url to an image and set a UIImageView to the image at this url?

Answer 1

If you want to display image from Url in ImageView, And also want to save this image in cache for optimize to server interaction this would help you Just pass your imageView object and string Url to this function

-(void)downloadingServerImageFromUrl:(UIImageView*)imgView AndUrl:(NSString*)strUrl{


strUrl = [strUrl encodeUrl];

NSString* theFileName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.png",[[strUrl lastPathComponent] stringByDeletingPathExtension]];


NSFileManager *fileManager =[NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSString *fileName = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"tmp/%@",theFileName]];



imgView.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
UIActivityIndicatorView *actView = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite];
[imgView addSubview:actView];
[actView startAnimating];
CGSize boundsSize = imgView.bounds.size;
CGRect frameToCenter = actView.frame;
// center horizontally
if (frameToCenter.size.width < boundsSize.width)
    frameToCenter.origin.x = (boundsSize.width - frameToCenter.size.width) / 2;
else
    frameToCenter.origin.x = 0;

// center vertically
if (frameToCenter.size.height < boundsSize.height)
    frameToCenter.origin.y = (boundsSize.height - frameToCenter.size.height) / 2;
else
    frameToCenter.origin.y = 0;

actView.frame = frameToCenter;


dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);
dispatch_async(queue, ^{

    NSData *dataFromFile = nil;
    NSData *dataFromUrl = nil;

    dataFromFile = [fileManager contentsAtPath:fileName];
    if(dataFromFile==nil){
        dataFromUrl=[[[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:strUrl]] autorelease];                      
    }

    dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{

        if(dataFromFile!=nil){
            imgView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:dataFromFile];
        }else if(dataFromUrl!=nil){
            imgView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:dataFromUrl];  
            NSString *fileName = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"tmp/%@",theFileName]];

            BOOL filecreationSuccess = [fileManager createFileAtPath:fileName contents:dataFromUrl attributes:nil];       
            if(filecreationSuccess == NO){
                NSLog(@"Failed to create the html file");
            }

        }else{
            imgView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"NO_Image.png"];  
        }
        [actView removeFromSuperview];
        [actView release];
        [imgView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
    });
});


}