Question

What is the super very easy way to load the image in the UITableViewCell asynchronously say given a imageURL without having to subclassing the UITableViewCell, i.e: standard UITableViewCell

Answer 1

The easiest way I know is to use SDWebImage library. Here is a link that explains how to utilize the SDWebImage library to load avatars asynchronously.

SDWebImage is an extension to the ImageView. Here is the usage:

// load the avatar using SDWebImage
    [cell.imageView setImageWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:tweet.profileImageUrl]
                   placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"grad_001.png"]];

And here is the referenced article:

Implementing Twitter Search