Problem dealloc'ing memory used by UIImageViews with fairly large image in an UIScrollView

Question

I have a large UIScrollView into which I\'m placing 3-4 rather large (320x1500 pixels or so) UIImageView image tiles. I\'m adding these UIImageViews to the scroll view insi

Answer 1

Completing the answer of Bdebeez.

One nice idea is to override the imageNamed: calling the imageWithContentsOfFile:.

Here is the idea of the code:

@implementation UIImage(imageNamed_Hack)

+ (UIImage *)imageNamed:(NSString *)name {

    return [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath], name ] ];
}

@end

Note: With this override you will not have any cache loading UIImages, if you need this, you will have to implement your own cache.