UITableViewCell's imageView fit to 40x40

Question

I use the same big images in a tableView and detailView. Need to make imageView filled in 40x40 when an imags is showed in tableView, but stretched on a half of a screen. I played with several properties but have no positive result:

[cell.imageView setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 50)];
[cell.imageView setClipsToBounds:NO];
[cell.imageView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 50)];
[cell.imageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill];

I am using SDK 3.0 with build in "Cell Objects in Predefined Styles".

Answer 1

I put Ben's code as an extension in my NS-Extensions file so that I can tell any image to make a thumbnail of itself, as in:

UIImage *bigImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImage.png"];
UIImage *thumb = [bigImage makeThumbnailOfSize:CGSizeMake(50,50)];

Here is .h file:

@interface UIImage (PhoenixMaster)
- (UIImage *) makeThumbnailOfSize:(CGSize)size;
@end

and then in the NS-Extensions.m file:

@implementation UIImage (PhoenixMaster)
- (UIImage *) makeThumbnailOfSize:(CGSize)size
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, NO, UIScreen.mainScreen.scale);
    // draw scaled image into thumbnail context
    [self drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height)];
    UIImage *newThumbnail = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();        
    // pop the context
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    if(newThumbnail == nil) 
        NSLog(@"could not scale image");
    return newThumbnail;
}

@end