How to scale a UIImageView proportionally?

Question

I have a UIImageView and the objective is to scale it down proportionally by giving it either a height or width.

UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2915896504_a88b69c9de.jpg"]]];
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image]; 

//Add image view
[self.view addSubview:imageView];   

//set contentMode to scale aspect to fit
imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;

//change width of frame
CGRect frame = imageView.frame;
frame.size.width = 100;
imageView.frame = frame;

The image did get resized but the position is not at the top left. What is the best approach to scaling image/imageView and how do I correct the position?

Answer 1

I just tried this, and UIImage does not support _imageScaledToSize.

I ended up adding a method to UIImage using a category - a suggestion I found on the Apple Dev forums.

In a project-wide .h -

@interface UIImage (Extras)
- (UIImage *)imageByScalingProportionallyToSize:(CGSize)targetSize;
@end;

Implementation:

@implementation UIImage (Extras)

- (UIImage *)imageByScalingProportionallyToSize:(CGSize)targetSize {

    UIImage *sourceImage = self;
    UIImage *newImage = nil;

    CGSize imageSize = sourceImage.size;
    CGFloat width = imageSize.width;
    CGFloat height = imageSize.height;

    CGFloat targetWidth = targetSize.width;
    CGFloat targetHeight = targetSize.height;

    CGFloat scaleFactor = 0.0;
    CGFloat scaledWidth = targetWidth;
    CGFloat scaledHeight = targetHeight;

    CGPoint thumbnailPoint = CGPointMake(0.0,0.0);

    if (CGSizeEqualToSize(imageSize, targetSize) == NO) {

        CGFloat widthFactor = targetWidth / width;
        CGFloat heightFactor = targetHeight / height;

        if (widthFactor < heightFactor) 
            scaleFactor = widthFactor;
        else
            scaleFactor = heightFactor;

        scaledWidth  = width * scaleFactor;
        scaledHeight = height * scaleFactor;

        // center the image

        if (widthFactor < heightFactor) {
            thumbnailPoint.y = (targetHeight - scaledHeight) * 0.5; 
        } else if (widthFactor > heightFactor) {
            thumbnailPoint.x = (targetWidth - scaledWidth) * 0.5;
        }
    }


    // this is actually the interesting part:

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(targetSize);

    CGRect thumbnailRect = CGRectZero;
    thumbnailRect.origin = thumbnailPoint;
    thumbnailRect.size.width  = scaledWidth;
    thumbnailRect.size.height = scaledHeight;

    [sourceImage drawInRect:thumbnailRect];

    newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    if(newImage == nil) NSLog(@"could not scale image");


    return newImage ;
}

@end;

Answer 2

I think you can do something like

image.center = [[imageView window] center];

Answer 3

UIImageView+Scale.h:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface UIImageView (Scale)

-(void) scaleAspectFit:(CGFloat) scaleFactor;

@end

UIImageView+Scale.m:

#import "UIImageView+Scale.h"

@implementation UIImageView (Scale)


-(void) scaleAspectFit:(CGFloat) scaleFactor{

    self.contentScaleFactor = scaleFactor;
    self.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(scaleFactor, scaleFactor);

    CGRect newRect = self.frame;
    newRect.origin.x = 0;
    newRect.origin.y = 0;
    self.frame = newRect;
}

@end

Answer 4

If the solutions proposed here aren't working for you, and your image asset is actually a PDF, note that XCode actually treats PDFs differently than image files. In particular, it doesn't seem able to scale to fill properly with a PDF: it ends up tiled instead. This drove me crazy until I figured out that the issue was the PDF format. Convert to JPG and you should be good to go.

Answer 5

Usually I use this method for my apps (Swift 2.x compatible):

// Resize UIImage
func resizeImage(image:UIImage, scaleX:CGFloat,scaleY:CGFloat) ->UIImage {
    let size = CGSizeApplyAffineTransform(image.size, CGAffineTransformMakeScale(scaleX, scaleY))
    let hasAlpha = true
    let scale: CGFloat = 0.0 // Automatically use scale factor of main screen

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, !hasAlpha, scale)
    image.drawInRect(CGRect(origin: CGPointZero, size: size))

    let scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return scaledImage
}