Loading Issues with UITableViewCell - ios

Question

Loading gifs into my UITableViewCell using SDWebImage. It's actually really fast, but the tableview doesn't seem to load up until the user actually scrolls the tableview.
Any suggestions for how to fix this issue?
This is my UITableView
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
// Return the number of rows in the section.
return self.gifArray.count;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *MyIdentifier = #"Cell";
RDGifGridTableViewCell *cell = (RDGifGridTableViewCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];
if (cell == nil)
{
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"RDGifGridTableViewCell" owner:self options:nil];
cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
cell.urlLabel.text = [self.gifArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.urlLabel.textColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[cell.imageView sd_setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:cell.urlLabel.text] placeholderImage:nil options:SDWebImageCacheMemoryOnly];
return cell;
}
This is how I add content to the array which occurs in viewDidLoad:
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:queue completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *connectionError) {
NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:nil];
NSArray *idArray = [json objectForKey:#"data"];
for (NSDictionary *ids in idArray) {
NSDictionary *images = ids[#"images"];
NSDictionary *fixedHeightImage = images[#"fixed_width"];
self.gifURL = fixedHeightImage[#"url"];
[self.gifArray addObject:self.gifURL];
[self.tableView reloadData];
}

Answer 1

The following line might be the problem
static NSString *MyIdentifier = #"Cell";
When your cells are being reused you are using a different cellIdentfier RDGifGridTableViewCell.
It should be the same cell being reused.
So just fix this line and use that variable again when it's nil to avoid such mistake, oh and while you're at it, consider renaming your variable to first letter lowercase myIdentifier as Objective C naming convention suggests.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *MyIdentifier = #"RDGifGridTableViewCell";
RDGifGridTableViewCell *cell = (RDGifGridTableViewCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];
if (cell == nil)
{
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"RDGifGridTableViewCell" owner:self options:nil];
cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
cell.urlLabel.text = [self.gifArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
cell.urlLabel.textColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[cell.imageView sd_setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:cell.urlLabel.text] placeholderImage:nil options:SDWebImageCacheMemoryOnly];
return cell;
}