uiimagepickerview controller creating memory leaks in iphone - why?

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uiimagepickerview controller creating memory leaks in iphone - why?

Try to implement ui image picker view controller in your application & debug it. You will fin

Answer 1

I can explain this because I was having the same problem.

Don't test memory on the simulator! If you test the apple code on a device the memory problem disappears.

I was having a memory alloc leak which I found in Instruments. All I was doing was opening and closing the image picker (open/cancel) and using Apple code, my code and other people's code, just like yours above.

All were showing the allocation going up and up each time, as if the picker was not being released. If you tried to release it, it would crash (over released).

Then I found a really helpful web page which basically stated:

"This doesn't happen when testing on the device"

So I switched from the simulator and ran the tests on the device. Lo & behold there was no allocation increase and it behaved normally.

This however is totally evil and now we can place no trust in the simulator to do a reliable job.

I want to add this to save people, the time, pain and bewilderment of wondering wtf is going on!