Download Image Using Urlsession Swift. The image needs to be loaded in background because it may be of any size and we don t want it to stop our main view s operations. I choose to use urlsessiondownload protocol in order to get the download status and progress through all the process.
How to download files with urlsession and downloadtask swift version. Networking in swift with urlsession written by reinder de vries on january 25 2019 in app development ios. This is my code.
In this article we ll discuss how you can use the urlsession suite of components classes and functions to make http get and post network requests.
Downloading a resource from an url seems like a trivial task but is it really that easy. I choose to use urlsessiondownload protocol in order to get the download status and progress through all the process. The identifier will identify the urlsession. To load an image in ios using swift we ll make use of simple data task session.