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iOS Build a Blog Reader iPhone App Adapting Data for Display Downloading and Displaying an Image

Posted by Mathieu Robert
Mathieu Robert
2,329 Points

Downloading from the web with NSData

Hey everyone, Just a quick question : to display any sources (image, text,...) from the web do I always need to use NSData to store it first and then display it? No quicker/other ways to do it? Cheers

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

most of the time yes. Thats the way most APIs will work. It would take too long and be to cumbersome to download the actual image file itself, so you just download the data for that file from their end and piece it together on your end (using methods such as imageWithData)

Mathieu Robert
Mathieu Robert
2,329 Points
Mathieu Robert
Mathieu Robert
2,329 Points

Great, thanks for the prompt reply mate :)