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You should use better approach and properly handle low memory warnings more efficiently. And If allocating ram is the biggest matter maybe you just need a ram upgrade (assuming your computer's ram can be upgraded from where it is currently).
You have no control over how much memory the system gives your application. You just have to respond to the notifications that the system is running low on memory. In low memory situations, you can trust that the system will close any non-critical background services to provide more memory for you application. But that will only go so far and then you need to get rid of any non-critical items that you have in memory as well.
Is it possible to allot more ram to an app? or control its ram.
I have a very very image / document intensive app that is sucking a lll the RAM out of an iPad 1. End result, crappy, crashing app.
Any help would be much appreciated.
-Andrew
The iPad 1 is by far the most memory-starved of recent devices, relative to it's screen size. Apps that do a lot of full-screen graphics, high-res textures, etc, can get into trouble on that model.
You need to write your app to do several things:
Only load a given image when it is on-screen, and release it when not on-screen.
For very large images, use a CATiledLayer to load the image in pieces as needed.
If you're trying to do large UIView animations where you load an array of images, you might need to use a saved movie file instead. Movie display is optimized to stream the frames from disk and not keep everything in memory. UIImage animations, by contrast, require that you provide an array of images in memory.
If you do those things, you should be able to keep the memory requirements reasonable.
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0 · Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeYou need to write your app to do several things:
Only load a given image when it is on-screen, and release it when not on-screen.
For very large images, use a CATiledLayer to load the image in pieces as needed.
If you're trying to do large UIView animations where you load an array of images, you might need to use a saved movie file instead. Movie display is optimized to stream the frames from disk and not keep everything in memory. UIImage animations, by contrast, require that you provide an array of images in memory.
If you do those things, you should be able to keep the memory requirements reasonable.
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