I'm trying to save a UIImage
to NSData
and then read the NSData
back to a new UIImage
in Swift. To convert the UIImage
to NSData
I'm using the following code:
let imageData: NSData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(myImage)
How do I convert imageData
(i.e., NSData
) back to a new UIImage
?
UIImage(data:imageData,scale:1.0)
presuming the image's scale is 1.
Thanks. Helped me a lot. Converted to Swift 3 and worked
To save: let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)
To load: let image = UIImage(data: data)
Use imageWithData:
method, which gets translated to Swift as UIImage(data:)
let image : UIImage = UIImage(data: imageData)
Now in Swift 4.2 you can use pngData()
new instance method of UIImage
to get the data from the image
let profileImage = UIImage(named:"profile")!
let imageData = profileImage.pngData()
To save as data:
From StoryBoard, if you want to save "image" data on the imageView of MainStoryBoard, following codes will work.
let image = UIImagePNGRepresentation(imageView.image!) as NSData?
To load "image" to imageView:
Look at exclamation point "!", "?" closely whether that is quite same as this one.
imageView.image = UIImage(data: image as! Data)
"NSData" type is converted into "Data" type automatically during this process.
For safe execution of code, use if-let
block with Data
to prevent app crash & , as function UIImagePNGRepresentation
returns an optional value.
if let img = UIImage(named: "TestImage.png") {
if let data:Data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img) {
// Handle operations with data here...
}
}
Note: Data is Swift 3+ class. Use Data instead of NSData with
Swift 3+
Generic image operations (like png & jpg both):
if let img = UIImage(named: "TestImage.png") { //UIImage(named: "TestImage.jpg")
if let data:Data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img) {
handleOperationWithData(data: data)
} else if let data:Data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(img, 1.0) {
handleOperationWithData(data: data)
}
}
*******
func handleOperationWithData(data: Data) {
// Handle operations with data here...
if let image = UIImage(data: data) {
// Use image...
}
}
By using extension:
extension UIImage {
var pngRepresentationData: Data? {
return UIImagePNGRepresentation(self)
}
var jpegRepresentationData: Data? {
return UIImageJPEGRepresentation(self, 1.0)
}
}
*******
if let img = UIImage(named: "TestImage.png") { //UIImage(named: "TestImage.jpg")
if let data = img.pngRepresentationData {
handleOperationWithData(data: data)
} else if let data = img.jpegRepresentationData {
handleOperationWithData(data: data)
}
}
*******
func handleOperationWithData(data: Data) {
// Handle operations with data here...
if let image = UIImage(data: data) {
// Use image...
}
}
Image to Data:-
if let img = UIImage(named: "xxx.png") {
let pngdata = img.pngData()
}
if let img = UIImage(named: "xxx.jpeg") {
let jpegdata = img.jpegData(compressionQuality: 1)
}
Data to Image:-
let image = UIImage(data: pngData)