Question about downloading multiple images

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#1

Hello,

I have an app where I need to download 5 to 10 images to show. Some of them may be on the same page and some alone. I want the user to swipe to flip screens. I know this is not built in and need to code it. The way this will work is the app will call an aspx page that returns a list of images it can download. When that list is returned I want to download them. It will also have the title for each picture in the list.

My question is this. Can I download one image after another? Would I use the events to do this where when one image is done it will start the download of the next?

If so, can the user be swiping through the photos while they are downloading? Can I show “Downloading” in place of the image until it is downloaded and showing?

Thanks!!!

Warren

#2

If you use network.download, you will get an event when its complete.  You could then fire off (probably would need to put it into a timer so that event call back can return) another download request.  Also during that complete event, you could then add the photo to the right place in a scrollView, which readers could be manipulating while this is going on. 

Then you could put a placeholder image in your scrollView where the next image will be placed.

#3

If you use network.download, you will get an event when its complete.  You could then fire off (probably would need to put it into a timer so that event call back can return) another download request.  Also during that complete event, you could then add the photo to the right place in a scrollView, which readers could be manipulating while this is going on. 

Then you could put a placeholder image in your scrollView where the next image will be placed.