iOS: load an image from url

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cyclingIsBetter picture cyclingIsBetter · Jun 10, 2012 · Viewed 86.4k times · Source

I need to load an image from a url and set it inside an UIImageView; the problem is that I don't know the exact size of the image, then how can I show the image correctly?

Answer

fbernardo picture fbernardo · Jun 10, 2012

Just use the size property of UIImage, for example:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:path];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *img = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
CGSize size = img.size;

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