Get Set Games » UIImage http://getsetgames.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:15:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Load a UIImage From a URL http://getsetgames.com/2009/12/05/iphonedev-advent-tip-5-how-to-load-a-uiimage-from-a-url/ http://getsetgames.com/2009/12/05/iphonedev-advent-tip-5-how-to-load-a-uiimage-from-a-url/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:10:06 +0000 Derek van Vliet http://getsetgames.com/?p=743 Early on in development of Addicus, we discovered how easy it was to load images from the web. This was a huge boon to us since it meant our artists could modify assets on our server and they would update live in the test builds, without having to make a new build.

This all hinged on the ability to load a UIImage from a URL. And as it happens, this can be accomplished in as little as one line of code:

UIImage * img = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/image.png"]]];

This eventually led to us writing a resource manager singleton class that handles all of our resource loading and can be toggled between local and web mode.

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