How to download an image from the web and display it in an UIImageView?

Question

How to download an image from the web and display it in an UIImageView? For example, I have an URL like: http://sstatic.net/so/apple-touch-icon.png

Would I need to mess around with NSURLConnection and the like, or is there a simple method that takes an web URL and downloads the image data automatically?

Answer 1

You can use NSData's dataWithContentsOfURL: class method to download the image data from the server, then just pass that data to UIImage's imageWithData:class method.

Here's an example:

NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://sstatic.net/so/apple-touch-icon.png"]];

UIImage *downloadedImage = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];

myImageView.image = downloadedImage;