How to load images faster in UICollectionView?

Question

I have array of images which contain fullpath of image. I stored images in document directory. The problem is when i scroll down the image load time in collection view is slow so scrolling is also very poor. Referencing this code to make it faster.

But the problem is images not displayed in cell. My collection view code is

-(UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    AlbumImageCell *cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"AlbumImageCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.albumImage.image=nil;
    cell.layer.shouldRasterize = YES;
    cell.layer.rasterizationScale = [UIScreen mainScreen].scale;
    if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[[NSBundle  mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"AlbumImageCell" owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];
    }
NSString *path=[documentImage objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:path];
// note that this can be a web url or file url

ImageRequest *request = [[ImageRequest alloc] initWithURL:url];

UIImage *image = [request cachedResult];

if (image) {
    UIImageView *imageView = (UIImageView *)[cell viewWithTag:127];
    imageView.image = image;
    cell.albumImage.image=image;
} else {
    [request startWithCompletion:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error) {
        if (image && [[collectionView indexPathsForVisibleItems] containsObject:indexPath]) {
            [self.album_ImageView reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath]];
        }
    }];
}
return cell;
}

I got null in UIImage. Please help me to solve this.

Answer 1

I highly recommend this library for loading images in collection view cell or table view using NSURL:

SDWebImage

As far as I know, it's one of the most commonly used asynchronous image downloader and probably uses some internal caching mechanism. You need to use import different category headers based on the UI element where you want to show the image. In this case, you need to include

#import <SDWebImage/UIImageView+WebCache.h>

Please find the SAMPLE code I have shown below which I have used for setting the image view for each and every cell within a collection view cell.

NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.you-url-goes-here.png"];

[_sampleImageView sd_setImageWithURL:imageURL placeholderImage:[UIImage defaultPlaceHolderImage] completed:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error, SDImageCacheType cacheType, NSURL *imageURL) {

        if (image == nil) {
            UIImage *localImage = [UIImage someLocalImage];
            if (localImage == nil) {
                localImage = [UIImage defaultPlaceHolderImage];
            }

            _sampleImageView.image = localImage;
        }
}];