As with all computing devices, iPads and iPhones have a finite amount of memory and you may be tempted to develop applications without any concern about the memory usage. Doing so is not ideal for development as memory optimizing and management should always be at the top of your mind when doing any type of development, regardless of whatever platform you will be developing on.
Let's take a look at the amount of memory that each of the iOS devices have, and we will start with iPhones:
|
iPhone 4S |
iPhone 5 |
iPhone 5C |
iPhone 5S | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
RAM |
512 MB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
Here is the RAM for iPads:
|
iPad Air |
iPad Mini 2 |
iPad Mini Wi-Fi + Cellular |
iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G |
iPad Mini Wi-Fi |
iPad 3 Wi-Fi |
iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular |
iPad 4 Wi-Fi |
iPad 2 Wi-Fi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
RAM |
1 GB |
1 GB |
512 MB |
512 MB |
512 MB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
512 MB |
Now, the amount of memory does look impressive as you fondly remember the days of old, where your old desktop ran on 256 MB of RAM, but do remember that iOS does not let you...