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This will allow you to take a screenshot of a UIView, but more importantly only a section of that view
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// | |
// Screenshot.swift | |
// | |
// 1) Take a picture of a UIView | |
// 2) Take a picture of a UIView's subframe. EG. Fullscreen UIView with a | |
// small square box in the middle, it will only save what's visible in the box frame | |
// but not the box itself | |
import Foundation | |
import UIKit | |
extension UIView { | |
class func image(view: UIView, subview: UIView? = nil) -> UIImage? { | |
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.frame.size, false, 0) | |
view.drawHierarchy(in: view.frame, afterScreenUpdates: true) | |
var image: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()! | |
UIGraphicsEndImageContext() | |
if(subview != nil){ | |
var rect = (subview?.frame)! | |
rect.size.height *= image.scale //MOST IMPORTANT | |
rect.size.width *= image.scale //TOOK ME DAYS TO FIGURE THIS OUT | |
let imageRef = image.cgImage!.cropping(to: rect) | |
image = UIImage(cgImage: imageRef!, scale: image.scale, orientation: image.imageOrientation) | |
} | |
return image | |
} | |
func image() -> UIImage? { | |
return UIView.image(view: self) | |
} | |
func image(withSubview: UIView) -> UIImage? { | |
return UIView.image(view: self, subview: withSubview) | |
} | |
} |
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