Question

I was wondering what is the biggest image size I can use as background in a UIVIEW.

I have an image of size 320 by 1700 which is scrollable and was wondering if this is going to be an issue loading it to the heap mem.

Cheers.

Answer 1

Note: Prior to iOS 3.0, UIView
instances may have a maximum height
and width of 1024 x 1024. In iOS 3.0
and later, views are no longer
restricted to this maximum size but
are still limited by the amount of
memory they consume. Therefore, it is
in your best interests to keep view
sizes as small as possible. Regardless
of which version of iOS is running,
you should consider using a
CATiledLayer object if you need to
create views larger than 1024 x 1024
in size.

Ref: iPhone Docs