diff --git a/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/image_cache.dart b/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/image_cache.dart
index a29db8ed57..5cbf7c5d9e 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/image_cache.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/image_cache.dart
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:ui' as ui;
 
 import 'package:mojo/mojo/url_response.mojom.dart';
+import 'package:quiver/collection.dart';
 
 import 'fetch.dart';
 import 'image_decoder.dart';
@@ -35,11 +36,16 @@ class _UrlFetcher implements ImageProvider {
   int get hashCode => _url.hashCode;
 }
 
+const int _kDefaultSize = 1000;
+
 class _ImageCache {
   _ImageCache._();
 
-  final Map<ImageProvider, ImageResource> _cache =
-      new Map<ImageProvider, ImageResource>();
+  final LruMap<ImageProvider, ImageResource> _cache =
+      new LruMap<ImageProvider, ImageResource>(maximumSize: _kDefaultSize);
+
+  int get maximumSize => _cache.maximumSize;
+  void set maximumSize(int value) { _cache.maximumSize = value; }
 
   ImageResource loadProvider(ImageProvider provider) {
     return _cache.putIfAbsent(provider, () {
diff --git a/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml b/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
index 12ce8ba811..a6ff61e219 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/flutter/pubspec.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies:
   sky_engine: 0.0.75
   sky_services: 0.0.75
   vector_math: '>=1.4.3 <2.0.0'
+  quiver: '>=0.21.4 <0.22.0'
 
   # See the comment in flutter_tools' pubspec.yaml. We have to pin it
   # here also because sky_services depends on mojo_sdk which depends