prevent creation of _UIAnimatedImage

[rounak]

I know that this is probably unrelated to FLAnimatedImage, but I thought you might be able to help me out. I'm downloading gifs from the network, and they have a large file size, so I just want them to be plain old UIImage that take up minimum RAM.

What's happening though is that I'm getting _UIAnimatedImage in the imageview which are presumably being animated by the system (I'm using an FLAnimatedImageView). This baloons up memory usage(>500MB), causing my app to crash.

Do you have any pointers as to how to disable either the creation of _UIAnimatedImage or stopping the animation? Any methods I can set a break point on to track this? Thanks. (FWIW, SDWebImage is responsible for creating UIImages out of network data.)

Happy to provide more info.

[caughtinflux]

This is definitely the wrong place to be asking, but your issue is that SDWebImage is automatically creating the animated UIImage from the remote data.

[rounak]

Yeah I just figured that out. Apologies for posting that here.

[rounak]

welp. looks like there's no official way to disable GIF creation. Didn't really want to fork.

[raphaelschaad]

The fine people over at SDWebImage are looking into replacing that bit with FLAnimatedImage: SDWebImage/SDWebImage#945

Here the relevant thread on FLAnimatedImage discussing the strategy:
#11

I think it's mostly on me to bang the uiimage-subclass branch (highly experimental, pushed a few weeks ago) in shape, then we can start integration, which would solve your problem.

[kean]

DFImageManager already features FLAnimatedImage integration. It has its own UIImage subclass @interface DFAnimatedImage : UIImage. I'm looking forward to replace it with FLAnimatedImage implementation.