Lazy load images in UITableViewCell

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Loading the images on a background thread is still a good idea. If you didn’t want to reload them each time, I’d suggest setting up an NSMutableDictionary and storing the images in there. You could use some unique identifier, like the row ID or even the name of the image, as the key for each image.

When loading a cell, you’d send an objectForKey: message to the NSMutableDictionary to retrieve the image for that particular cell (based on your unique key for it). If it returns nil, that means that the image is missing from the cache and you need your background image loading thread to go retrieve it. Otherwise, you will get back the appropriate image for your table cell to display. On a memory warning, you could clear out this cache of images with no adverse effects (aside from forcing them to be reloaded again on demand).

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