Automates preheating (prefetching) of content in UITableView
and UICollectionView
.
Deprecated on iOS 10. This library is similar to
UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching
andUICollectionViewDataSourcePrefetching
added in iOS 10 which I would recommend to use instead.
One way to use Preheat
is to improve user experience in applications that display collections of images. Preheat
allows you to detect which cells are soon going to appear on the display, and prefetch images for those cells. You can use Preheat
with any image loading library, including Nuke which it was designed for.
The idea of automating preheating was inspired by Apple’s Photos framework example app.
- See Image Preheating Guide
- Check out example project for Nuke
Here is an example of how you might implement preheating in your application using Preheat and Nuke:
import Preheat
import Nuke
class PreheatDemoViewController: UICollectionViewController {
let preheater = Nuke.Preheater()
var controller: Preheat.Controller<UICollectionView>?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
controller = Preheat.Controller(view: collectionView!)
controller?.handler = { [weak self] addedIndexPaths, removedIndexPaths in
self?.preheat(added: addedIndexPaths, removed: removedIndexPaths)
}
}
func preheat(added: [IndexPath], removed: [IndexPath]) {
func requests(for indexPaths: [IndexPath]) -> [Request] {
return indexPaths.map {
var request = Request(url: photos[$0.row])
request.priority = .low
return request
}
}
preheater.startPreheating(with: requests(for: added))
preheater.stopPreheating(with: requests(for: removed))
}
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
controller?.enabled = true
}
override func viewDidDisappear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidDisappear(animated)
// When you disable preheat controller it removes all preheating
// index paths and calls its handler
controller?.enabled = false
}
}
- iOS 8.0 / tvOS 9.0
- Xcode 9
- Swift 4
To install Preheat add a dependency to your Podfile:
# source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
# use_frameworks!
# platform :ios, "8.0"
pod "Preheat"
To install Preheat add a dependency to your Cartfile:
github "kean/Preheat"
Import installed modules in your source files
import Preheat
Preheat is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.