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Fattie
Fattie

Reputation: 12641

Does SDWebImage support "not-when-fast-scrolling" (skimming) for lazy loading?

When doing lazy loading (table of UICollectionView),

for a correct result, you should NOT begin downloads, when the user is scrolling very quickly over the collection.

So, imagine a vertical scroll with 200 panels each with an image; four or five are seen onscreen at a time.

When it first loads, the first 4 visible images should begin loading. If you scroll down a little, the newly visible images should begin to load.

BUT if the user: very quickly scrolls down to (say) position 100 and then positions the view showing items 100-104 ... you ideally SHOULD NOT starting loading the images which the user "skimmed" over very quickly (say, 4 through 99), you should only kick in the downloads when the user stops scrolling very quickly, and apparently is stopping or slowing on some images.

So, this is a standard thing you have to do in any high-quality lazy-loading scroll. You don't start loading when the user is skimming.

My question is simply: does SDWebImage support this concept? If not is there another popular ready-made approach? Cheers

Upvotes: 2

Views: 525

Answers (1)

jrturton
jrturton

Reputation: 119242

It doesn't support it, because it's usually a category on an image view, but it would be pretty straightforward to add the ability yourself.

Assuming you were kicking off the image load in cellForItem..., you'd add a dispatch after block which would only kick off the load if the same cell still had the same index path after, say, 0.2 seconds.

I'd check if you had a measurable problem before doing anything, though - AFAIK SDWebImage (and definitely the AFNetworking image view category) will cancel any outstanding URL requests when a new one is received, so you might be making an unnecessary optimisation.

Upvotes: 5

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