Iphone – Full image OR 1px pattern

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in my iPhone app I would to create a ThemeManager in order to skin the view.
I am wondering what is the best way to limit memory use.

I would like to fill a view with a background.
Should I load a 1px pattern and draw it into the view or should I load the complete image ?

Thanks for you comments.

Thierry

Best Answer

A 1px pattern sounds like you could use a plain color. But anyway, when you're optimizing:

measure
optimize
measure

instead of just optimize.

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Results of testing with the utility Split wrote (link is in his answer):

device: (crash amount/total amount/percentage of total)

iPad1: 127MB/256MB/49%
iPad2: 275MB/512MB/53%
iPad3: 645MB/1024MB/62%
iPad4: 585MB/1024MB/57% (iOS 8.1)
iPad Mini 1st Generation: 297MB/512MB/58%
iPad Mini retina: 696MB/1024MB/68% (iOS 7.1)
iPad Air: 697MB/1024MB/68%
iPad Air 2: 1383MB/2048MB/68% (iOS 10.2.1)
iPad Pro 9.7": 1395MB/1971MB/71% (iOS 10.0.2 (14A456))
iPad Pro 10.5”: 3057/4000/76% (iOS 11 beta4)
iPad Pro 12.9” (2015): 3058/3999/76% (iOS 11.2.1)
iPad Pro 12.9” (2017): 3057/3974/77% (iOS 11 beta4)
iPad Pro 11.0” (2018): 2858/3769/76% (iOS 12.1)
iPad Pro 12.9” (2018, 1TB): 4598/5650/81% (iOS 12.1)
iPad 10.2: 1844/2998/62% (iOS 13.2.3)
iPod touch 4th gen: 130MB/256MB/51% (iOS 6.1.1)
iPod touch 5th gen: 286MB/512MB/56% (iOS 7.0)
iPhone4: 325MB/512MB/63%
iPhone4s: 286MB/512MB/56%
iPhone5: 645MB/1024MB/62%
iPhone5s: 646MB/1024MB/63%
iPhone6: 645MB/1024MB/62% (iOS 8.x)
iPhone6+: 645MB/1024MB/62% (iOS 8.x)
iPhone6s: 1396MB/2048MB/68% (iOS 9.2)
iPhone6s+: 1392MB/2048MB/68% (iOS 10.2.1)
iPhoneSE: 1395MB/2048MB/69% (iOS 9.3)
iPhone7: 1395/2048MB/68% (iOS 10.2)
iPhone7+: 2040MB/3072MB/66% (iOS 10.2.1)
iPhone8: 1364/1990MB/70% (iOS 12.1)
iPhone X: 1392/2785/50% (iOS 11.2.1)
iPhone XS: 2040/3754/54% (iOS 12.1)
iPhone XS Max: 2039/3735/55% (iOS 12.1)
iPhone XR: 1792/2813/63% (iOS 12.1)
iPhone 11: 2068/3844/54% (iOS 13.1.3)
iPhone 11 Pro Max: 2067/3740/55% (iOS 13.2.3)

Ios – How to handle image scale on all the available iPhone resolutions

You don't have to have each image in all scales if it won't be used. Make only the sizes you need and name them according to their width. For portrait full-device-width images, you need 320px wide at 1x and 2x, 375px wide at 2x and 414px wide at 3x.

4" devices used "-568h" suffix for naming their launch images, so I'd recommend a similar naming scheme:

ImageName-320w (@1x & @2x)
ImageName-375w (@2x)
ImageName-414w (@3x)

Then figure out what image you need at runtime:

NSNumber *screenWidth = @([UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width);
NSString *imageName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"name-%@w", screenWidth];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:imageName];

This might break if other widths are added in future, but so far Apple has always required rebuilding the app to support new displays so I guess it's somewhat safe to assume they will continue doing that.

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