Question

I have problem with memory. I use ARC. I’ m loading .jpgs to UIImageView on my view.

Code showing example situation:

//.h file

@interface myClass : UIViewController
{
    IBOutlet UIImageView * back;
}
// don' t have @property
// back is connected in .xib

//.m file
-(void) viewDidLoad {
    UIImage *  myImg =[UIImage imageNamed:imgName];

    back.image=myImg;
}

-(void) returnToPrevoriousView {
   [self removeFromSuperview];
   back.image = nil;
}

The problem is that i come to this view from the other view and imgName can have many values. I can come myClass for example six times then I have log: Recieve memory warning and my app crash.

I think myImg isn’ t released from memory? I don’ t have any idea how fix it ? JPGs have about 100kb.

PS. When I load .png it’ s works(aslo faster) in spite of .png images have usually 600kB. But I think it still don’ t release memory ?

Answer 1

Do not use UIImage imageNamed: if you are certain that the image will not be used again within your app. imageNamed: uses an internal caching mechanism that will use additional memory.

From the UIImage Class Reference:

This method looks in the system caches for an image object with the
specified name and returns that object if it exists. If a matching
image object is not already in the cache, this method loads the image
data from the specified file, caches it, and then returns the
resulting object.

Instead use UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile: for single use images as those are not cached.

Note: only imageNamed: will do automatic retina version loading (@2x).