Swift 4 AlamofireImage with UITableView Cell

Question

I am using AlamofireImages to try to download an image from a server and display it in my table view cell, this is what I got, but my images does not appear, just the textLabel

Answer 1

Of course your image will not show for you. Cause when Alamofire starts downloading your image its process in background thread. But you are working in Main Thread or UI Thread so you need to swap from background to Main Thread it will work for you.

Alamofire.request("http://xxxxxxx.com/uploads/" + (self.array[indexPath.row]["cover"] as! String)).responseImage { response in
       DispatchQueue.main.async {
            if let image = response.result.value {
                cell.imageView?.image = image
            }
        }
}

If you think it is difficulty for you to do this i recommend you to use this library called Kingfisher it will handle asynchronous loading images for you that make your cell's table run in smoothly.

Link: https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher