How should I archecture app to send data from server to iPhone using JSON as medium?

Question

I have an iOS application that communicates with web server. For simplicity, the app has only one UITableView and cells only have one UIImageView with a label.

What are the best practices when sending the text data from the server to the device?

I have read that we can just ecode the UIImages from the server and pass it to the device together with the other text like so:

text: "someText"
image:"*&TFUNITGH(U*Y&^(*YG ---encodedData"

But is this the right approach to send them both together in JSON format? Is there a better way? Basically what i'm asking is, how best do i architecture my app so that I don't shoot my self in the foot when the project gets much larger and more complex? Any advice is much appreciated thanks.

Answer 1

As one commenter mentioned, the best approach would be:

1. Server sends URL image links
2. App loads the images asynchronously

This works well since the images are usually hosted on some image server for speed.