Loading/Downloading image from URL on Swift

Question

I\'d like to load an image from a URL in my application, so I first tried with Objective-C and it worked, however, with Swift, I\'ve a compilation error:

Answer 1

Swift 2.2 || Xcode 7.3

I got Amazing results!! with AlamofireImage swift library

It provides multiple features like:

• Asynchronously download
• Auto Purging Image Cache if memory warnings happen for the app
• Image URL caching
• Image Caching
• Avoid Duplicate Downloads

and very easy to implement for your app

Step.1 Install pods

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Alamofire 3.3.x

pod 'Alamofire'

AlamofireImage 2.4.x

pod 'AlamofireImage'

Step.2 import and Use

import Alamofire
import AlamofireImage

let downloadURL = NSURL(string: "http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/Img/photos/big/6.jpg?v=f4b7c5fee820")!
imageView.af_setImageWithURL(downloadURL)

that's it!! it will take care everything

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Great thanks to Alamofire guys, for making iDevelopers life easy ;)