CachedImageView Widget

NOTE: Titanium seems to have built-in remote image caching in iOS since about 2.x and in Android since 3.x. This is not documented, but I've created a ticket for this to be done.

Overview

The CachedImageView widget implements the best practice of caching remote images for Titanium Alloy by Appcelerator.

Features

• Initialize the widget directly through the requiring view.
• Provide a seperate URL for the image to use on IOS retina devices.
• Provide a local filename to be used instead of the MD5 hash of the URL.
• Provide an extension for the local file if the remote doesn't have one.
• Eventing.

Future work

• Provide a subdirectory to save the image under.
• Provide a choice to which system directory (cache, data) to save under.
• Provide a maximum age for the cached image before re-downloading it.

Quick Start

• Download the latest version of the widget as a ZIP file.
• Move the file to your project's root folder.
• Unzip the file and you'll find the widget under app/widgets/nl.fokkezb.cachedImageView.
• Add the widget as a dependency to your app/config.json file like so:

    …
    "dependencies": {
        "nl.fokkezb.cachedImageView":"1.4"
    }

• Use the widget in a view just like you'd use an ImageView. Only use Widget instead of ImageView and add the src attribute to point to the widget.

<Widget src="https://github.com/FokkeZB/nl.fokkezb.cachedImageView/raw/1.4/nl.fokkezb.cachedImageView"
id="civ" image="http://url.to/image.png" onClick="handleClick" />

• Optionally add any of the additional parameters as attributes.

Additonal parameters

The only required parameter is the image parameter. All parameters are passed on to the resulting Ti.UI.ImageView. You can add the following additional parameters to change the widget's behaviour. They can be used both as attributes in <Widget> and when initializing the widget in your controller.

Methods

Properties

Initialization in the Controller

If you don't include the image parameter as an attribute in <Widget/>, the resulting Ti.UI.ImageView will not be automatically initialized for you. This allows you to do this yourself in your controller. This can be usefull if you want to add some advanced decission logic to determine which image to use. If this would only depend on the formFactor and platform however, I would recommend using conditional code in <Widget/> instead.

NOTE: The $.cid in the example below corresponds to the id attribute in the <Widget/> example. You can change it to whatever value. From 1.2 on you can also call the more common applyProperties.

$.cid.init({
    image: OS_IOS ? 'http://url.to/image.png' : 'http://url.to/android-image.png'
});

Styling the ImageView

You can style the resulting Ti.UI.ImageView by applying the styles to the <Widget/> instead. Add the style declaration to the TTS file that belongs to the view where you've added the <Widget/>. The styling will be passed on to the resuling Ti.UI.ImageView. Be aware that any attributes you add directly to <Widget/> will override the TTS style.

NOTE: The $.cid in the example below corresponds to the id attribute in the <Widget/> example.

"#cid": {
    width: 57,
    height: 57,
    preventDefaultImage: true
}

Changelog

• 1.4: Added events
• 1.3: Fixed bug when using blob/file, added image property and cacheNot param
• 1.2: Added getImage, setImage, applyProperties and deleted __parentSybmol
• 1.1: Support for styling via TSS before setting image via init()
• 1.0: Initial version

License

Copyright 2013 Fokke Zandbergen

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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