How to populate a UIScrollView with UIImageView

Question

I need some code on how to make a UIScrollView that contains UIImageViews lined up like the iPhone photo's app that comes with the phone.

Answer 1

Best way to do this is probably a standard UITableView whose cells contain a row of four UIImageViews. In -tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:, load the four images corresponding to that row (assuming you've got them in a linear array, the image indices would be (row*4), (row*4 + 1), (row*4 + 2), and (row*4 + 3)), and apply them to the cell's image views. Make sure to use -dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier and initWithStyle:reuseIdentifier: or your performance—specifically, the overhead of creating and destroying all the views involved—will be terrible.

Answer 2

This is a frequently asked question around here. Several questions that might have answers on the various aspects of doing this are

• UIScrollView image/photo viewer with paging enabled and zooming
• Photos app-like gap between pages in UIScrollView with pagingEnabled
• Flicking through pages / photos with UIImageViews (similar to Facebook photos app or home screen)
• Is it Possible to Center Content in a UIScrollView Like Apple’s Photos App?
• create multiple images view like the photo app iphone sdk

The Three20 framework has a drop-in component for doing just this, as well.