UIImageView/UIImage “Memory Tag 70” release timing when scrolling

Question

I have a long horizontal paged scrollview, for each page, I put a fullscreen UIImage.

As it is expensive and not necessary to add all UIImage at once, currently I la

Answer 1

I would try the following:

1. Don't use [UIImage imageNamed:] for loading images. That builds up in memory tag 70.
2. Use the instance methods initWithContentsOfFile: and autorelease it explicitly. Note: Doing so would mean losing the caching advantage [UIImage imageNamed:] gives. But try it out.
3. Use @autoreleasepool (instead of NSAutoreleasePool) around the code where image allocation happens. It can be used regardless of ARC.