UIImageView displays downloaded images from HTTP, but won't display image resource - ios

In my first View Controller after a user logs in, there is a quick check to see if the user has uploaded a custom image to his account. (If he has, there's a URL in the user's profile data.)
These images are downloaded correctly in my code and they show up beautifully. The problem comes when there is no custom user image, and the VC tries to set the same UIImageView to a default picture (in xcassets). The picture is being loaded into the bundle, as far as I can tell, and it's a valid PNG file.
Here is the snippet for setting the image. If a custom URL is not found, I set the URL parameter string to "nil."
-(void) setImageWithUrl: (NSString *) Url Imageview: (UIImageView *) image {
if (Url.length > 4) {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:Url];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *Profileimage = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
[image setImage:Profileimage];
}
else {
UIImage *Profileimage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"DefaultPicture"];
[image setImage:Profileimage];
}
}
This one's driving me nuts, so all weird ideas are welcome. :-)
Let me know if you want me to post any other parts of the code that you think could be a factor.

It looks like debug-need issue. But why don't you use any image download/cache library, like SDWebImage?
It gonna be much efficient and convenient

Related

How can parse all the images form Website in IOS SDK

I like to implement image upload functionality in my app.For that I like to give some option for user to choose image.
One of the option is choose image from website.
If the user enter an url link in the text box and click the get images button means. I like to display all the images in that particular link
But I am not having any idea about this.
I have explain my requirement below
1)Enter the url in a text box
2)Click the get images button
3)Parse all the images from that particular url
4)Display all the images in the Imageview
And also to illustrate my requirement I have attached the screenshot below
If anybody work around this functionality means please suggest me some idea
Thanks
Like this ?
- (IBAction)buttonClicked:(id)sender
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.yourwebvsite.com/image.png"];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: data];
UIImageView *displayImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
[displayImageView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 300, 300)];
[displayImageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
[self.view addSubview:displayImageView];
}
Or if you want all the images from a web directory. See here and save all the images in an array then display the images in a UIImageView like my code above.

Memory Leak Downloading image from server

I have a paged slider view with an image on each page. I'm using NSOperationQueue to help me download the images from the server while the program is running. The NSOperationQueue is used to call the following method,
-(NSData *)imageWith:(NSString *)imageName
{
NSString *imagePath = [[NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:imageName];
NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:imagePath];
if (!imageData) {
imageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/%#", picsURL,imageName] stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]]];
if (imageData) {
[imageData writeToFile:imagePath atomically:YES];
}
}
return imageData;
}
and then I use the main thread to display the downloaded image on the scrollerview:
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:#selector(loadPic:) withObject:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:[self imageWith:[picsNames objectAtIndex:imageView.tag]], [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", imageView.tag], nil] waitUntilDone:YES];
which calls the following method:
-(void)loadPic:(NSArray *)imageAndTagArray
{
if (imageAndTagArray.count) {
//loading the image to imageview
UIImageView *imageView = (UIImageView *)[scrollView viewWithTag:[[imageAndTagArray objectAtIndex:1] intValue]];
imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:((NSData *)[imageAndTagArray objectAtIndex:0])];
//stopping the indicator
[((UIActivityIndicatorView *)[imageView viewWithTag:ACTIVITY_INDICATOR_TAG]) stopAnimating];
}
}
Everything works fine for the first 60 images, but after that I receive a Memory Warning and after about 100 images the app crashes.
I have been spending so much time on this and I can't figure out what to do. I've used Instruments and it doesn't detect any leak. I've also used Analyze and that did show anything either.
EDIT:
If I replace the imageWith: method definition with the following definition I still get the warnings, where 5.jpg is a local image.
-(NSData *)imageWith:(NSString *)imageName
{
return UIImagePNGRepresentation([UIImage imageNamed:#"5.jpg"]);
}
Let me tell you more about the situation.
When the app starts I have a view with a paged scrollview inside it that contains 9 images per page. the scrollview uses the nsoperationqueue to load images which calls the imageWith: method.
when the user taps on any of the images a second view opens with a full display of the selected image. this second view also has a scroll view that contains the same images as the first view but with full display, meaning 1 image per page.
when you are on the second view and scrolling back and forth the app crashes after loading about 60 images.
It also crashes if say it loads 50 images and then you tap on the back button and go to the first view and then tap on another image and go to the second view and load about 10 images.
It sounds like you're holding too many images in memory. When you open the second view, it's reloading the images again from disk, until you end up with two copies of all the images.
The UIImage class may be able to help you with this memory management. In its reference page, it mentions that it has the capability to purge its data in low-memory situations and then reload the file from disk when it needs to be drawn again. This might be your solution.
However, as you're creating the image from an NSData read from disk, the UIImage will probably not be able to purge its memory - it won't know that your image is simply stored on the disk, so it can't throw away the data and reload it later.
Try changing your "imageWith" method to create a UIImage (via imageWithContentsOfFile) from the file URL on the disk just before it returns, and return the UIImage rather than returning the intermediate NSData. That way, the UIImage will know where on disk its image source came from and be able to intelligently purge/reload it as memory becomes constrained on the device.

How can I download images into the app? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
iOS download and save image inside app
(11 answers)
Closed 10 years ago.
How can I download images into the app? Like I want to fetch images from my website and download it into the person's iphone app to be shown in the app? Basically the image won't be shown by url.
More specific:
How do I download the image to the app without using UIImage. I want to fetch the image and download it as the file name "anne.png" then reference it throughout the app using UIImage as anne.png. See - I want to download it first so that when someone visits the app a second time, they see the image, and see a default image in the meantime.. Thanks.?
http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/download-and-create-an-image-from-a-url.html
URL to Remote Image
We start by creating a URL to the remote resource:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: #"http://mobiledevelopertips.com/images/logo-iphone-dev-tips.png"];
Create UIImage from NSData
The next step is to build a UIImage using the data downloaded from the URL, which consists of an NSData object that holds the remote image contents:
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]];
Putting it Together
Here’s how to wrap it all together, adding the remote image as a subview to an existing view by creating a UIImageView from the above UIImage:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://mobiledevelopertips.com/images/logo-iphone-dev-tips.png"];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]];
[self.view addSubview:[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image]];
For single image you can use the following. Keep in mind this will block the UI till the image is fully downloaded.
[UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:photoURL]];
To download the image without blocking the UI:
dispatch_queue_t downloadQueue = dispatch_queue_create(“image downloader”, NULL);
dispatch_async(downloadQueue, ^{
[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:photoURL];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
// Code to show the image in the UI goes here
});
});
To save the image to the phone camera roll you can use UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum.
To save the image in the app's directory. Use NSData's writeToFile:atomically:
To download several images from a website maybe this can help you:
What's the best way to download multiple images and display multiple UIImageView?

image retrieved from url does not fit properly into UIImageView

I'm trying to download an image from an url and display into a cell (sample below):
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://images.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logos/images_logo_lg.gif"];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
[cell.imageView setImage:[UIImage imageWithData:data]];
Somehow when I display into the cell, it covers the whole cell, bigger than my UIImageView.
But If I display the image locally like below:
[cell.imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"defaultProfile.png"]];
It fits perfectly into the UIImageView I set into the cell.
Why is this the case?
use scaleToFit property of imageview

Fastest way to load images into a UIView?

i have a UIScrollView which holds different UIView container. Each container has to load six UIImages. When scrolling i need to adjust the contents within the "layoutSubviews" method.
Unfortunately loading these images affects in hiccups when the new container and the images will be created.
I´m loading the images async via "dispatch_async". I also used small 32x32px thumbnails which will be replaced with the full image 256x256px image. Unfortunately its stuttering..
Here´s the code of the "initWithFrame" method of such a UIView.
These UIViews will later be added as a subview to the UIView container.
// load ThumbnailImage and replace it later with the fullImage
NSString* thumbImageName = [self.data.imageName stringByAppendingString:#"_small"];
NSString* fileLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: thumbImageName ofType:#"png"];
UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:fileLocation]];
[self setBackgroundImage:img forState:UIControlStateNormal];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_HIGH, 0), ^{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
NSString* fileLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: self.data.imageName ofType:#"png"];
UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:fileLocation]];
[self setBackgroundImage:img forState:UIControlStateNormal];
});
});
Is this the faster way to load images into a UIView?
How does Apple implemented the really fluid image view inside the "Photo.app" when scrolling between different fullscreen images?
I don´t know if it would make sense to use CoreImage?
Any advice would be great!
Thanks for any help and your time.
Have a nice day.

Resources