SwiftUI: Image with barcode doesn't show up - image

I'm trying to present an instance of UIImage, generated as a barcode from a string:
if let image = UIImage(barcode: "1234567890") {
Image(uiImage: image)
}
But it shows empty rectangle, though in debug the image is populated with the real image:
I use a simple UIImage extension to generate an UIImage with barcode from a string:
extension UIImage {
convenience init?(barcode: String) {
let data = barcode.data(using: .ascii)
guard let filter = CIFilter(name: "CICode128BarcodeGenerator") else {
return nil
}
filter.setValue(data, forKey: "inputMessage")
guard let ciImage = filter.outputImage else {
return nil
}
self.init(ciImage: ciImage)
}
}
What's wrong? Any ideas?

Yes, looks like some defect/incompatibility with Image. You can file a feedback to Apple.
Meanwhile here is a workaround. Tested with Xcode 12 / iOS 14
struct TestBarCodeView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
BarCodeView(barcode: "1234567890")
.scaledToFit()
.padding().border(Color.red)
}
}
}
struct BarCodeView: UIViewRepresentable {
let barcode: String
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIImageView {
UIImageView()
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIImageView, context: Context) {
uiView.image = UIImage(barcode: barcode)
}
}

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How convert NSColor to Color & vice versa on SwiftUI

I'm developing a macOS app with SwiftUI.
I have an extension to save the NSColors on Userdefaults & get it later.
I want to use this extension but cannot cast the SwiftUI Color to NSColor and vice versa.
The codes I tried so far was these:
let swiftUIColor = Color.red
let nsColor = NSColor(swiftUIColor)
or
let nsColor = NSColor.red
let swiftUIColor = Color(nsColor)
None of the above codes did work out.
Here is the extension to save & read NSColor on Userdefaults:
extension UserDefaults {
func color(forKey key: String) -> NSColor? {
guard let colorData = data(forKey: key) else { return nil }
do {
return try NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchivedObject(ofClass: NSColor.self, from: colorData)
} catch let error {
print("color error \(error.localizedDescription)")
return nil
}
}
func set(_ value: NSColor?, forKey key: String) {
guard let color = value else { return }
do {
let data = try NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: color, requiringSecureCoding: false)
set(data, forKey: key)
} catch let error {
print("error color key data not saved \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
}

In SwiftUI, how can I add a video on loop as a fullscreen background image?

I have a video thats around 10 seconds long that I'd like to play on a loop as a fullscreen background image in one of my SwiftUI Views. How can I implement this?
First idea was working with Swift's import AVFoundation, but not sure if this is the right path.
You can use the AV family of frameworks and UIViewRepresentable to do this:
import SwiftUI
import AVKit
struct PlayerView: UIViewRepresentable {
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<PlayerView>) {
}
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView {
return PlayerUIView(frame: .zero)
}
}
In order for the video to loop I have added an observer and set the actionAtItemEnd to .none to support looping.
When the video reaches the end it will execute the playerItemDidReachEnd(...) method and seek to the beginning of the video and keep looping.
The example points to a remote video URL. If you want to point to a file within your application you can use Bundle.main.url to do so instead:
if let fileURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "IMG_2770", withExtension: "MOV") {
let player = AVPlayer(url: fileURL)
// ...
}
class PlayerUIView: UIView {
private let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer()
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
let url = URL(string: "https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8")!
let player = AVPlayer(url: url)
player.actionAtItemEnd = .none
player.play()
playerLayer.player = player
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
selector: #selector(playerItemDidReachEnd(notification:)),
name: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
object: player.currentItem)
layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
}
#objc func playerItemDidReachEnd(notification: Notification) {
if let playerItem = notification.object as? AVPlayerItem {
playerItem.seek(to: .zero, completionHandler: nil)
}
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
playerLayer.frame = bounds
}
}
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
ZStack {
PlayerView()
.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
}
}
}
}
SwiftUI
As someone completely new to swift and for anyone who doesn't want to spend hours debugging this like I did. My use case was trying to create a login screen with a video playing in the background. I was struggling with the looping not working and then with the video stopping after a few seconds and starting again after the duration. This works for me.
Add a new view:
import SwiftUI
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
struct WelcomeVideo: View {
var body: some View {
WelcomeVideoController()
}
}
struct WelcomeVideo_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
WelcomeVideo()
}
}
final class WelcomeVideoController : UIViewControllerRepresentable {
var playerLooper: AVPlayerLooper?
func makeUIViewController(context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<WelcomeVideoController>) ->
AVPlayerViewController {
let controller = AVPlayerViewController()
controller.showsPlaybackControls = false
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "welcome", ofType:"mp4") else {
debugPrint("welcome.mp4 not found")
return controller
}
let asset = AVAsset(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset)
let queuePlayer = AVQueuePlayer()
// OR let queuePlayer = AVQueuePlayer(items: [playerItem]) to pass in items
playerLooper = AVPlayerLooper(player: queuePlayer, templateItem: playerItem)
queuePlayer.play()
controller.player = queuePlayer
return controller
}
func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: AVPlayerViewController, context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<WelcomeVideoController>) {
}
}
Then attach it to a view background:
.background(WelcomeVideo())
NOTE:
Make sure your video is imported to your project
Update the name of the video to what you need or refactor slightly to pass it in
Cheers!
This is what worked for me:
source
var body: some View {
ZStack{
HStack{
Spacer()
.frame(width: 50)
AmbienceVid()
}
.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
}
}
struct AmbienceVid: UIViewRepresentable {
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<AmbienceVid>) {
}
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView {
return PlayerUIView(frame: .zero)
}
}
class PlayerUIView: UIView {
private var playerLooper: AVPlayerLooper?
private var playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer()
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
// Load the resource
let fileUrl = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "ambiencevid", withExtension: "mp4")!
let asset = AVAsset(url: fileUrl)
let item = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset)
// Setup the player
let player = AVQueuePlayer()
playerLayer.player = player
playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
// Create a new player looper with the queue player and template item
playerLooper = AVPlayerLooper(player: player, templateItem: item)
// Start the movie
player.play()
}
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
playerLayer.frame = bounds
}
}
A looping, no-controls macOS implementation if people were searching for it.
import SwiftUI
import AVKit
struct NSVideoPlayer: NSViewRepresentable {
var videoURL: URL
func makeNSView(context: Context) -> AVPlayerView {
let item = AVPlayerItem(url: videoURL)
let queue = AVQueuePlayer(playerItem: item)
context.coordinator.looper = AVPlayerLooper(player: queue, templateItem: item)
let view = AVPlayerView()
view.player = queue
view.controlsStyle = .none
view.player?.playImmediately(atRate: 1)
return view
}
func updateNSView(_ nsView: AVPlayerView, context: Context) {}
func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator {
Coordinator()
}
class Coordinator {
var looper: AVPlayerLooper? = nil
}
}
Tested in Swift 5 and SwiftUI 3
Viewmodel class functions
var avPlayer = AVPlayer()
func previewPlayer() -> AVPlayer {
self.avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: vedioData.preWithWithDecoURL!)
return self.avPlayer
}
func loopCurrentVedio() {
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: nil, queue: .main) { _ in
self.avPlayer.seek(to: .zero)
self.avPlayer.play()
}
}
In your SwiftUI View class
VideoPlayer(player: previewPlayer())
.frame(width: 300, height: 532, alignment: .center)
.cornerRadius(20)
.onAppear {
loopCurrentVedio()
}
This is the simplest solution I found

Is there any way to make a paged ScrollView in SwiftUI?

I've been looking through the docs with each beta but haven't seen a way to make a traditional paged ScrollView. I'm not familiar with AppKit so I am wondering if this doesn't exist in SwiftUI because it's primarily a UIKit construct. Anyway, does anyone have an example of this, or can anyone tell me it's definitely impossible so I can stop looking and roll my own?
You can now use a TabView and set the .tabViewStyle to PageTabViewStyle()
TabView {
View1()
View2()
View3()
}
.tabViewStyle(PageTabViewStyle())
As of Beta 3 there is no native SwiftUI API for paging. I've filed feedback and recommend you do the same. They changed the ScrollView API from Beta 2 to Beta 3 and I wouldn't be surprised to see a further update.
It is possible to wrap a UIScrollView in order to provide this functionality now. Unfortunately, you must wrap the UIScrollView in a UIViewController, which is further wrapped in UIViewControllerRepresentable in order to support SwiftUI content.
Gist here
class UIScrollViewViewController: UIViewController {
lazy var scrollView: UIScrollView = {
let v = UIScrollView()
v.isPagingEnabled = true
return v
}()
var hostingController: UIHostingController<AnyView> = UIHostingController(rootView: AnyView(EmptyView()))
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.view.addSubview(self.scrollView)
self.pinEdges(of: self.scrollView, to: self.view)
self.hostingController.willMove(toParent: self)
self.scrollView.addSubview(self.hostingController.view)
self.pinEdges(of: self.hostingController.view, to: self.scrollView)
self.hostingController.didMove(toParent: self)
}
func pinEdges(of viewA: UIView, to viewB: UIView) {
viewA.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
viewB.addConstraints([
viewA.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.leadingAnchor),
viewA.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.trailingAnchor),
viewA.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.topAnchor),
viewA.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.bottomAnchor),
])
}
}
struct UIScrollViewWrapper<Content: View>: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
var content: () -> Content
init(#ViewBuilder content: #escaping () -> Content) {
self.content = content
}
func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> UIScrollViewViewController {
let vc = UIScrollViewViewController()
vc.hostingController.rootView = AnyView(self.content())
return vc
}
func updateUIViewController(_ viewController: UIScrollViewViewController, context: Context) {
viewController.hostingController.rootView = AnyView(self.content())
}
}
And then to use it:
var body: some View {
GeometryReader { proxy in
UIScrollViewWrapper {
VStack {
ForEach(0..<1000) { _ in
Text("Hello world")
}
}
.frame(width: proxy.size.width) // This ensures the content uses the available width, otherwise it will be pinned to the left
}
}
}
Apple's official tutorial covers this as an example. I find it easy to follow and suitable for my case. I really recommend you check this out and try to understand how to interface with UIKit. Since SwiftUI is so young, not every feature in UIKit would be covered at this moment. Interfacing with UIKit should address most if not all needs.
https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/interfacing-with-uikit
Not sure if this helps your question but for the time being while Apple is working on adding a Paging View in SwiftUI I've written a utility library that gives you a SwiftUI feel while using a UIPageViewController under the hood tucked away.
You can use it like this:
Pages {
Text("Page 1")
Text("Page 2")
Text("Page 3")
Text("Page 4")
}
Or if you have a list of models in your application you can use it like this:
struct Car {
var model: String
}
let cars = [Car(model: "Ford"), Car(model: "Ferrari")]
ModelPages(cars) { index, car in
Text("The \(index) car is a \(car.model)")
.padding(50)
.foregroundColor(.white)
.background(Color.blue)
.cornerRadius(10)
}
You can simply track state using .onAppear() to load your next page.
struct YourListView : View {
#ObservedObject var viewModel = YourViewModel()
let numPerPage = 50
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
List(viewModel.items) { item in
NavigationLink(destination: DetailView(item: item)) {
ItemRow(item: item)
.onAppear {
if self.shouldLoadNextPage(currentItem: item) {
self.viewModel.fetchItems(limitPerPage: self.numPerPage)
}
}
}
}
.navigationBarTitle(Text("Items"))
.onAppear {
guard self.viewModel.items.isEmpty else { return }
self.viewModel.fetchItems(limitPerPage: self.numPerPage)
}
}
}
private func shouldLoadNextPage(currentItem item: Item) -> Bool {
let currentIndex = self.viewModel.items.firstIndex(where: { $0.id == item.id } )
let lastIndex = self.viewModel.items.count - 1
let offset = 5 //Load next page when 5 from bottom, adjust to meet needs
return currentIndex == lastIndex - offset
}
}
class YourViewModel: ObservableObject {
#Published private(set) items = [Item]()
// add whatever tracking you need for your paged API like next/previous and count
private(set) var fetching = false
private(set) var next: String?
private(set) var count = 0
func fetchItems(limitPerPage: Int = 30, completion: (([Item]?) -> Void)? = nil) {
// Do your stuff here based on the API rules for paging like determining the URL etc...
if items.count == 0 || items.count < count {
let urlString = next ?? "https://somePagedAPI?limit=/(limitPerPage)"
fetchNextItems(url: urlString, completion: completion)
} else {
completion?(pokemon)
}
}
private func fetchNextItems(url: String, completion: (([Item]?) -> Void)?) {
guard !fetching else { return }
fetching = true
Networking.fetchItems(url: url) { [weak self] (result) in
DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak self] in
self?.fetching = false
switch result {
case .success(let response):
if let count = response.count {
self?.count = count
}
if let newItems = response.results {
self?.items += newItems
}
self?.next = response.next
case .failure(let error):
// Error state tracking not implemented but would go here...
os_log("Error fetching data: %#", error.localizedDescription)
}
}
}
}
}
Modify to fit whatever API you are calling and handle errors based on your app architecture.
Checkout SwiftUIPager. It's a pager built on top of SwiftUI native components:
If you would like to exploit the new PageTabViewStyle of TabView, but you need a vertical paged scroll view, you can make use of effect modifiers like .rotationEffect().
Using this method I wrote a library called VerticalTabView 🔝 that turns a TabView vertical just by changing your existing TabView to VTabView.
You can use such custom modifier:
struct ScrollViewPagingModifier: ViewModifier {
func body(content: Content) -> some View {
content
.onAppear {
UIScrollView.appearance().isPagingEnabled = true
}
.onDisappear {
UIScrollView.appearance().isPagingEnabled = false
}
}
}
extension ScrollView {
func isPagingEnabled() -> some View {
modifier(ScrollViewPagingModifier())
}
}
To simplify Lorenzos answer, you can basically add UIScrollView.appearance().isPagingEnabled = true to your scrollview as below:
VStack{
ScrollView(showsIndicators: false){
VStack(spacing: 0){ // to remove spacing between rows
ForEach(1..<10){ i in
ZStack{
Text(String(i))
Circle()
} .frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.height)
}
}
}.onAppear {
UIScrollView.appearance().isPagingEnabled = true
}
.onDisappear {
UIScrollView.appearance().isPagingEnabled = false
}
}

How to conform UIImage to Codable?

Swift 4 has Codable and it's awesome. But UIImage does not conform to it by default. How can we do that?
I tried with singleValueContainer and unkeyedContainer
extension UIImage: Codable {
// 'required' initializer must be declared directly in class 'UIImage' (not in an extension)
public required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
let container = try decoder.singleValueContainer()
let data = try container.decode(Data.self)
guard let image = UIImage(data: data) else {
throw MyError.decodingFailed
}
// A non-failable initializer cannot delegate to failable initializer 'init(data:)' written with 'init?'
self.init(data: data)
}
public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
var container = encoder.singleValueContainer()
guard let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(self) else {
return
}
try container.encode(data)
}
}
I get 2 errors
'required' initializer must be declared directly in class 'UIImage' (not in an extension)
A non-failable initializer cannot delegate to failable initializer 'init(data:)' written with 'init?'
A workaround is to use wrapper. But are there any other ways?
Properly the easiest way is to just make the property Data instead of UIImage like this:
public struct SomeImage: Codable {
public let photo: Data
public init(photo: UIImage) {
self.photo = photo.pngData()!
}
}
Deserialize the image:
UIImage(data: instanceOfSomeImage.photo)!
A solution: roll your own wrapper class conforming to Codable.
One solution, since extensions to UIImage are out, is to wrap the image in a new class you own. Otherwise, your attempt is basically straight on. I saw this done beautifully in a caching framework by Hyper Interactive called, well, Cache.
Though you'll need to visit the library to drill down into the dependencies, you can get the idea from looking at their ImageWrapper class, which is built to be used like so:
let wrapper = ImageWrapper(image: starIconImage)
try? theCache.setObject(wrapper, forKey: "star")
let iconWrapper = try? theCache.object(ofType: ImageWrapper.self, forKey: "star")
let icon = iconWrapper.image
Here is their wrapper class:
// Swift 4.0
public struct ImageWrapper: Codable {
public let image: Image
public enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
case image
}
// Image is a standard UI/NSImage conditional typealias
public init(image: Image) {
self.image = image
}
public init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
let data = try container.decode(Data.self, forKey: CodingKeys.image)
guard let image = Image(data: data) else {
throw StorageError.decodingFailed
}
self.image = image
}
// cache_toData() wraps UIImagePNG/JPEGRepresentation around some conditional logic with some whipped cream and sprinkles.
public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
guard let data = image.cache_toData() else {
throw StorageError.encodingFailed
}
try container.encode(data, forKey: CodingKeys.image)
}
}
I'd love to hear what you end up using.
UPDATE: It turns out the OP wrote the code that I referenced (the Swift 4.0 update to Cache) to solve the problem. The code deserves to be up here, of course, but I'll also leave my words unedited for the dramatic irony of it all. :)
You can use very elegant solution using extension for KeyedDecodingContainer and KeyedEncodingContainer classes:
enum ImageEncodingQuality {
case png
case jpeg(quality: CGFloat)
}
extension KeyedEncodingContainer {
mutating func encode(
_ value: UIImage,
forKey key: KeyedEncodingContainer.Key,
quality: ImageEncodingQuality = .png
) throws {
let imageData: Data?
switch quality {
case .png:
imageData = value.pngData()
case .jpeg(let quality):
imageData = value.jpegData(compressionQuality: quality)
}
guard let data = imageData else {
throw EncodingError.invalidValue(
value,
EncodingError.Context(codingPath: [key], debugDescription: "Failed convert UIImage to data")
)
}
try encode(data, forKey: key)
}
}
extension KeyedDecodingContainer {
func decode(
_ type: UIImage.Type,
forKey key: KeyedDecodingContainer.Key
) throws -> UIImage {
let imageData = try decode(Data.self, forKey: key)
if let image = UIImage(data: imageData) {
return image
} else {
throw DecodingError.dataCorrupted(
DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [key], debugDescription: "Failed load UIImage from decoded data")
)
}
}
}
PS: You can use such way to adopt Codable to any class type
One way to pass an UIImage is to convert it to something that conforms to Codable, like String.
To convert the UIImage to String inside func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws:
let imageData: Data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)!
let strBase64 = imageData.base64EncodedString(options: .lineLength64Characters)
try container.encode(strBase64, forKey: .image)
To convert the String back to UIImage inside required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws:
let strBase64: String = try values.decode(String.self, forKey: .image)
let dataDecoded: Data = Data(base64Encoded: strBase64, options: .ignoreUnknownCharacters)!
image = UIImage(data: dataDecoded)
The existing answers all appear to be incorrect. If you compare the deserialized image with the original, you will find they may well not be equal in any sense. This is because the answers are all throwing away the scale information.
You have to encode the image scale as well as its pngData(). Then when you decode the UIImage, combine the data with the scale by calling init(data:scale:).
The best solution is to use a custom property wrapper
the property remains mutable
no code alternations needed, just add the #CodableImage prefix
Usage
class MyClass: Codable {
#CodableImage var backgroundImage1: UIImage?
#CodableImage var backgroundImage2: UIImage?
#CodableImage var backgroundImage3: UIImage?
Add this code to project:
#propertyWrapper
public struct CodableImage: Codable {
var image: UIImage?
public enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
case image
}
public init(image: UIImage?) {
self.image = image
}
public init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
if let b = try? container.decodeNil(forKey: CodingKeys.image), b {
self.image = nil
} else {
let data = try container.decode(Data.self, forKey: CodingKeys.image)
guard let image = UIImage(data: data) else {
throw DecodingError.dataCorruptedError(forKey: CodingKeys.image, in: container, debugDescription: "Decoding image failed")
}
self.image = image
}
}
public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
if let data = image?.pngData() {
try container.encode(data, forKey: CodingKeys.image)
} else {
try container.encodeNil(forKey: CodingKeys.image)
}
}
public init(wrappedValue: UIImage?) {
self.init(image: wrappedValue)
}
public var wrappedValue: UIImage? {
get { image }
set {
image = newValue
}
}
}
There's also a simple solution using lazy var on the image:
var mainImageData: Data {
didSet { _ = mainImage }
}
lazy var mainImage: UIImage = {
UIImage(data: mainImageData)!
}()
This way, during object initialization and assignment to mainImageData, its didSet will kick in which will then initiate the initialization of the UIImage.
Since UIImage initialization is resource heavy, we couple them together.
Just pay attention that the entire initialization will be on the background thread.
Swift 5.4
// MARK: - ImageWrapper
public struct ImageWrapper: Codable {
// Enums
public enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
case image
}
// Properties
public let image: UIImage
// Inits
public init(image: UIImage) {
self.image = image
}
// Methods
public init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
let data = try container.decode(Data.self, forKey: CodingKeys.image)
if let image = UIImage(data: data) {
self.image = image
} else {
// Error Decode
}
}
public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
if let imageData: Data = image.pngData() {
try container.encode(imageData, forKey: .image)
} else {
// Error Encode
}
}
}

Best way to load image url swift 2 in UITableView

I want to create A Ui TableView with a list of image link with swift 2:
for example : var images = ["link1","link2",...,linkN"]
I create a custom cell to display the image :
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(CurrentFormTableView.CellIdentifiers.ImageCell, forIndexPath: indexPath) as! ImageCell
cell.urlImageView.tag = indexPath.row
cell.displayImage(images[index.row])
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None
return cell
And here I have my custom cell to load my image :
import UIKit
class ImageCell: UITableViewCell {
#IBOutlet weak var urlImageView: UIImageView!
#IBOutlet weak var loadingStatus: UIActivityIndicatorView!
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
}
override func setSelected(selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
}
func loadImageFromUrl(url: String, view: UIImageView){
if view.image == nil {
self.startLoading()
// Create Url from string
let url = NSURL(string: url)!
// Download task:
// - sharedSession = global NSURLCache, NSHTTPCookieStorage and NSURLCredentialStorage objects.
let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url) { (responseData, responseUrl, error) -> Void in
// if responseData is not null...
if let data = responseData{
// execute in UI thread
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { () -> Void in
self.stopLoading()
view.image = UIImage(data: data)
})
}
}
// Run task
task.resume()
}
}
func displayImage(imageUrl: String){
imageView?.image = nil
if imageUrl != nil && imageUrl != "" {
print(imageUrl)
loadImageFromUrl(imageUrl,view: urlImageView)
} else {
loadingStatus.hidden = true
}
}
func startLoading(){
loadingStatus.hidden = false
loadingStatus.startAnimating()
}
func stopLoading(){
loadingStatus.hidden = true
loadingStatus.stopAnimating()
}
}
The problem is that, she times the images are loading correctly, and sometimes, one image or more "override the other" so I have multiple identical images instead of see all my different images. How it is possible ? Where is my mistake ?
You're not implementing the reuse of the cells, meaning that the imageView's image of one cell will be the same as another that it was reused from, until the new image has loaded.
To prevent this, implement the -prepareForReuse: method:
override func prepareForReuse() {
super.prepareForReuse()
urlImageView.image = nil
// cancel loading
}
Furthermore, you shouldn't be doing any network-related code in the view layer, it should be done in the view controller. This will allow you to implement caching mechanisms if the image has already been downloaded for a specific cell, as well as alter the state of other views.
i.e. In your view controller:
var cachedImages = [String: UIImage]()
func cellForRow...() {
let imageURL = imageURLs[indexPath.row]
if let image = cachedImages[imageURL] {
cell.urlImageView.image = cachedImages[imageURL]
}
else {
downloadImage(indexPath, { image in
if let image = image {
cachedImages[imageURL] = image
cell.urlImageView.image = image
}
})
}
}
func downloadImage(indexPath: NSIndexPath, callback: () -> (UIImage?)) {
let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(url) { (responseData, responseUrl, error) -> Void in
// if responseData is not null...
if let data = responseData {
// execute in UI thread
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
callback(UIImage(data: data))
})
}
else {
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
callback(nil)
})
}
}
// Run task
task.resume()
}

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