How to get [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:] and High Res Images working

Question

As many people are complaining it seems that in the Apple SDK for the Retina Display there\'s a bug and imageWithContentsOfFile actually does not automatically load the 2x i

Answer 1

We just ran into this here at work. Here is my work-around that seems to hold water:

NSString *imgFile = ...path to your file;
NSData *imgData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:imgFile];
UIImage *img = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:imgData];