UITableView scrolling is not smooth

Question

I have the smooth scrolling issue at my UITableView with UITableViewCell which contains UIImageView. Similar issues could be found all over the StrackOverflow but none of the pr

Answer 1

Did you every tried to populate your TableView with only one 120x120 Image which is saved in your Bundle? This way you can check, if the problem occurs of your Image rendering

Instead of resizing all your images to 120x120 and save them in cache, I would recommend creating and using a thumbnail of all your images. You are somehow already doing this, but you are doing this couple of times (everytime you are scrolling or if your cache is full).

In our last project we had a UICollectionView with book covers. Most of the covers were between 400-800kb big and the feeling while scrolling was really bad. So we created a thumbnail for each image (thumbails about 40-50kb) and used the thumbnails instead of real covers. Works like a charm! I attached the thumbnail creation function

- (BOOL) createThumbnailForImageAtFilePath:(NSString *)sourcePath withName:(NSString *)name {

    UIImage* sourceImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:sourcePath];
    if (!sourceImage) {
        //...
        return NO;
    }

    CGSize thumbnailSize = CGSizeMake(128,198);

    float imgAspectRatio = sourceImage.size.height / sourceImage.size.width;
    float thumbnailAspectRatio = thumbnailSize.height/thumbnailSize.width;

    CGSize scaledSize = thumbnailSize;

    if(imgAspectRatio >= thumbnailAspectRatio){
         //image is higher than thumbnail
         scaledSize.width = scaledSize.height * thumbnailSize.width / thumbnailSize.height;
    }
    else{
        //image is broader than thumbnail
        scaledSize.height = scaledSize.width * imgAspectRatio;
    }

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions( scaledSize, NO, 0.0 );
    CGRect scaledImageRect = CGRectMake( 0.0, 0.0, scaledSize.width, scaledSize.height );
    [sourceImage drawInRect:scaledImageRect];
    UIImage* destImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    NSString* thumbnailFilePath = [[self SOMEDIRECTORY] stringByAppendingPathComponent:name];

   BOOL success = [UIImageJPEGRepresentation(destImage, 0.9) writeToFile:thumbnailFilePath atomically:NO];

return success;

}