UIImagePickerController run out of memory with camera source

Question

I got a big performance issue using UIImagePickerController and saving the image on disk. I can\'t figure out what I am doing wrong. Here is my code:

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. The way I got round it was to handle the image from the picker in a seperate thread. My problem was the main thread handling my app/UI was crashing out when trying to close the picker and handle the image:

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
    didFinishPickingImage:(UIImage *)image
              editingInfo:(NSDictionary *)editingInfo
{
    [[picker parentViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

    NSLog(@"picker did finish");
    [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(useImage:) toTarget:self withObject:image];

}

Answer 2

Your problem might be due to you taking the original image.

The original image from the camera has a resolution of around 1200x1400, which is a lot of memory and will cause the device to crash if you try making a picture out of it (it will run out of memory).

I would suggest resizing the image to be smaller (the native 320x480).