How To Create A Gallery on iOS

Question

I\'m starting to develop a simple application for iOS, and this application is a simple gallery of some photo (taken from a website). The first problem I encountered is how

Answer 1

In case that you want to use third party classes, the next tutorials can be mixed, they worked for me. Here's a good grid view:
custom image picker like uiimagepicker

And if you want to load them asynchronously, use this: image lazy loading

Both tutorials are very well described and have source code.

Answer 2

Um, since ios6 came out, the right way to do this is with Collection Views:

Apple Docs on CollectionViews

Also, see the two WWDC 2012 sessions on them:

Introduction to Collection Views
Advanced Collection Views

Sadly, Apple did not include a simple gallery or coverflow layout, but it's pretty easy to make one.

Answer 3

Here is a very good library called FGallery for iOS

-Supports auto-rotation

-thumbnail View

-zoom

-delete

Answer 4

If you don't want to use a third party library, you should do this in UITableView rows. Because of the way UITableView caches cells, it's relatively lightweight in memory. Certainly more so than a possibly very large UIView inside a UIScrollView. I've done it both ways, and I was much happier with the UITableView.

That said, next time I need to do this? I plan to use AQGridView.

Answer 5

You should check out AQGridView which does exactly what you are trying to achieve. Even if you want to write your own custom code, have a look at the AQGridView source as more than likely you will need to use a UIScrollView as a base.

Answer 6

I wrote a tutorial on building a media gallery using a UICollectionView. It populates from the user's photo library. I think it will work perfectly for what you are trying to do.

iPhone Programming Tutorial: Creating An Image Gallery Like Over – Part 1

Hope that helps. Cheers!