What to do when my app receives memory warning?

Question

What should I do when my app recieves a memory warning?

Answer 1

It really depends on your app.

If your app downloads and caches lots of contents from Internet for example, you should purge as much as possible when receiving a warning.

If your app is an OpenGL game, you might have a texture/sound/data manager which references some unused data, which you then want to free. Cocos2D manages this kind of things.

If your app isn't memory intensive, you have a memory leak somewhere, and you should 1) read the Memory Management Programming Guide by Apple 2) use Instruments/Leaks.