How to create UIImageView with image from a link?

Question

How to create UIImageView with image from a link like this http://img.abc.com/noPhoto4530.gif? Anybody can help me? :(

Answer 1

Download image to a local path on your device then get a UIImage from imageWithContentsOfFile and use this to set the image in the UIImageView. Remember to cleanup your image file sometime.

Answer 2

You can either do as described here, or you can use NSURLConnection to download the image data and create the UIImage to set to you UIImageView. I personally prefer using NSURLConnection to download the image asynchronously.

Answer 3

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://img.abc.com/noPhoto4530.gif"];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];