PHImageKit(ty) 😺

PHImageKit is simple yet powerful image downloading, caching and GIF playback framework.

• Download an image or GIF and display it with just a single call
• Caches both in memory and in file storage
• Plays multiple GIFs simultaneously
• Eliminates delays or blocking during the first playback loop of GIFs
• Written in Swift

PHImageKit is the component that powers all the images and GIFs in the Product Hunt iOS App 😻

Installation

Installation with CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Objective-C and swift, which automates and simplifies the process of using 3rd-party libraries like PHImageKit.

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

pod 'PHImageKit'

Then, run the following command:

$ pod install

Usage

Replace your usage of UIImageView with PHImageView. Then simply pass your image url.

imageView.url = NSURL(string: "http://your_image_url.png")!

And that's it. 🚀

Options

You can configure the appearance of PHImageView

Parameter	Description	Defined in	Default state
showLoadingIndicator	Shows a loading indicator during download	PHImageView	true
animatedTransition	Cross dissolve animated transition	PHImageView	true
setCacheSize	Set max file and memory cache size in MB	PHManager	memory : 50mb file : 250mb

Requirements

iOS 8.0+ Xcode 7.0 or above

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Run the tests
6. Create new Pull Request

To Do

• Add ability to set placeholder image
• Objective C compatibility
• UserPlay for GIFs

Inspirations

• FLAnimatedImage
• SDWebImage
• Kingfisher

Contributors

• Vladimir Vladimirov
• Radoslav Stankov

License

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MIT License