What is the super very easy way to load the image in the UITableViewCell asynchronously say given a imageURL without having to subclassing the UITableViewCell, i.e: standard UIT
The easiest way I know is to use SDWebImage library. Here is a link that explains how to utilize the SDWebImage library to load avatars asynchronously.
SDWebImage is an extension to the ImageView. Here is the usage:
// load the avatar using SDWebImage
[cell.imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:tweet.profileImageUrl]
placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"grad_001.png"]];
And here is the referenced article:
Implementing Twitter Search