Question

i have a tableview which has image and a text behind, i create the cells like below code :

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {

        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];

    }

    cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;

    NSDictionary * companyProductRow = [DB getCompanyProductRow:[self.companyProductIDs objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];

    int companyProductID = [[companyProductRow objectForKey:@"ID"] intValue];

    cell.tag = companyProductID;

    cell.textLabel.text = [companyProductRow objectForKey:@"ImagePath"];

    NSString* fullPath = [FileManager fullPath:companyProductID fairDirectory:[[self.currentFair objectForKey:@"ID"]intValue]];

    [[cell imageView] setImage:[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:fullPath]];

    return cell;
}

i read some tips about tableview performance on apple developer site but all of they said is :
Reuse cells. Object allocation has a performance cost, especially if the allocation has to happen repeatedly over a short period—say, when the user scrolls a table view. If you reuse cells instead of allocating new ones, you greatly enhance table-view performance.
Avoid relayout of content. When reusing cells with custom subviews, refrain from laying out those subviews each time the table view requests a cell. Lay out the subviews once, when the cell is created.
Use opaque subviews. When customizing table view cells, make the subviews of the cell opaque, not transparent.

the sample in apple site is the same, but i want to know is there any way to have better performance when scrolling on uitableview? (when we should read image from disk).

so thanks

Answer 1

Yes it is.
The first thing you could enhance is the image loading.
Try to avoid [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:fullPath] because it always loads the entirely image into the memory. This in fact is slow. Use [UIImage imageNamed:"YOUR_IMGAES_NAME"] instead because it caches the images after the first use or preload/store them directly in your fileManager.

The next step would be to set all views in the cell to nil (like the imageView) and draw all the contents by hand. The reason for this is that UIViews are pretty slow. If you have a lot of labels, images, etc. to display it happens to be much faster to draw everything by hand.