DownloadFast Image Cache is an efficient, persistent, and, above all, fast way to store and retrieve images in your iOS application. Part of any good iOS application's user experience is fast, smooth scrolling, and Fast Image Cache helps make this easier. A significant burden on performance for graphics-rich applications like Path is image loading. The traditional method of loading individual images from disk is just too slow, especially while scrolling. Fast Image Cache was created specifically to solve this problem. In order to understand how Fast Image Cache works, it's helpful to understand a typical scenario encountered by many applications that work with images. iOS applications, especially those in the social networking space, often have many images to display at once, such as user photos. The intuitive, traditional approach is to request image data from an API, process the original images to create the desired sizes and styles, and store these processed images on the device.
Features
- Stores images of similar sizes and styles together
- Persists image data to disk
- Returns images to the user significantly faster than traditional methods
- Automatically manages cache expiry based on recency of usage
- Utilizes a model-based approach for storing and retrieving images
- Allows images to be processed on a per-model basis before being stored into the cache
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