Preload cells of uitableview

Question

I acknowledge that UITableview load dynamically a cell when user scrolls. I wonder if there is a way to preload all cells in order not to load each one while scrolling. I need t

Answer 1

You can initialize table view cells, put them into an array precomputedCells and in the data source delegate method tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: return the precomputed cells from the array instead of calling dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:. (Similar to what you would do in a static table view.)

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    return [self.precomputedCells objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
}

It might also be useful to have a look at the WWDC 2012 Session 211 "Building Concurrent User Interfaces on iOS" where it is shown how to fill the contents of table view cells in background threads while keeping the user interface responsive.