How to draw a line between two points over an imag

Question

I am new to swift, I want to draw a line between 2 points over an image which I called mapView, I tried to use CGContext but got no result, any idea to help? Thanks.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(mapView.bounds.size)
    let context : CGContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
    context.addLines(between: [CGPoint(x:oldX,y:oldY), CGPoint(x:newX, y:newY)])
    context.setStrokeColorSpace(CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB())
    context.setStrokeColor(UIColor.blue.cgColor.components!)
    context.setLineWidth(3)
    mapView?.image?.draw(at: CGPoint(x:0, y:0))
    context.strokePath()
    mapView.image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

Answer 1

One option is to add a sub view to your image view and add the line drawing code into its draw(_ rect: CGRect) method.

A sample playground implementation:

class LineView : UIView {
    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        self.backgroundColor = UIColor.init(white: 0.0, alpha: 0.0)
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        if let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() {
            context.setStrokeColor(UIColor.blue.cgColor)
            context.setLineWidth(3)
            context.beginPath()
            context.move(to: CGPoint(x: 5.0, y: 5.0)) // This would be oldX, oldY
            context.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 50.0, y: 50.0)) // This would be newX, newY
            context.strokePath()
        }
    }
}


let imageView = UIImageView(image: #imageLiteral(resourceName: "image.png")) // This would be your mapView, here I am just using a random image
let lineView = LineView(frame: imageView.frame)
imageView.addSubview(lineView)