Question

I was going through this link, where I came across a point Avoid UIImage’s imageNamed. For what reason we should avoid this?

Answer 1

In Apple WWDC videos section they are saying imageNamed leaked once..But no longer do..I remember seeing the video, but cant remember which video section..It was in 2010 WWDC I think..ImageNamed still caches images..From documentation of imageNamed..

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.

But I think these cache’s will be cleared when any low memory condition occurs..Just for your information..I am an avid fan of imageNamed and I always use it..I never had any memory issues with it..