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Azabella
Azabella

Reputation: 847

Save a UIImage and reused it on UIImageview

I currently have the ability to take a photo or load from the camera and place an image in the UIImageView in my app be i want the ability to have a button that will save the image so when i reload the app the image is still in the UIImageView.

My though was a button to save the image once you have loaded it and in the 

-(void)viewDidLoad

have the code to load the image that was saved but i don't know how to approach this.

Any help would be fantastic.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1492

Answers (1)

Guy Kogus
Guy Kogus

Reputation: 7341

You can convert images to NSData using either UIImagePNGRepresentation or UIImageJPGRepresentation, then save the data to file calling one of NSData's writeToFile... methods.

Then when you restart your application, you can get the image by calling [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:filePath]]

-- EDIT --

Save image

UIImage *image = ...;
NSString *cachedFolderPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)[0];
NSString *cachedImagePath = [cachedFolderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"image.png"];
[UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) writeToFile:cachedImagePath atomically:YES];

Load image

NSString *cachedFolderPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)[0];
NSString *cachedImagePath = [cachedFolderPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"image.png"];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:cachedImagePath]];

I used NSCachesDirectory since I'm assuming you don't want to have this image backed up (either through iCloud or iTunes). If you do then you'd want to use NSDocumentDirectory instead.

Upvotes: 4

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