iOS: Best approach for image gallery [Image Caching] - ios

I have to implement an Image Gallery for the iPhone iOS. Pictures are loaded from the web based on an XML document which contains the URLs of the pictures. My question is - what is the best approach for implementing an Image Gallery Overview of all pictures of a certain gallery? (where all pictures are presented to the user at once, like in a GridView. This question focuses on performance issues because one gallery can have more than 100 photos - each of them has a size of 100KB or more).
I already tried to implement a simple View which consists of multiple UIImageViews (rows and cols) where the images are loaded asynchronously. But the App crashes with low memory warnings, so I have to load the pictures on demand and not all at once.
What would be the best way to implement such a Gallery Overview? Using an UITableView with 3 pictures for each cell for instance? Or is it better to use a paged UIScrollView where the user is able to switch between pages where each page presents 12 pictures or so?
The main problem is the caching of the images. Would be glad for some hints.

You can cache images regardless on which solution you do, to cache the images you can either implement your own caching mechanism or use one already mad ( i opt for the second choice) i normally use ASIHTTPRequest, more specifically i use ASIDownloadCache check their documentation but its very easy to use

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Also you say 'a' uiwebview. Does that mean that the URL your accessing to show within your uiwebview is static? If so, just copy and save the image and store the image in your project for future reference.
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Sorry I'm just unclear with the question... Please no down votes :)

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Imagine you use a web service that delivers images via an API. Every image has an UID and you have a Core Data entity Image with attributes uid (int) and image (transformable).
Now a gallery of your app needs to show many images (the UIDs are known). You don't know which of the images have been downloaded and stored before. How can you lazily download images with core data in the background, so that the view may show an UIActivityIndicator during loading and automatically shows the image as soon as it is stored locally (e.g. by using the NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate protocol)?
Is it useful to subclass UIImageView for that purpose?
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So, bottom line, for simple user interfaces, perhaps you could subclass a UIImageView but I'd generally advise to have some custom image caching object that does the lazy loading with some delegate protocol to tell the UI when the image load is complete.
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However, I found this article that talks about Core Data Image Caching that may be of use.
Also, here's another Stack Overflow post with a good answer that tells you when to store images in a database and when to just use references to disk storage.
If you don't absolutely need Core Data, then may I recommend using MWPhotoBrowser?
https://github.com/mwaterfall/MWPhotoBrowser
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Short answer: everything you wanted to do without reinventing the wheel.

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