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codercat
codercat

Reputation: 23271

Saving an Mutable array of images and loading them

I have part of my app that will take a photo and the person can elect to save it i then save the image to an array but what ways can I save it to the phone WITHOUT it being put in the photo library. I tried

UIImage *image = imageView1.image;

[array addObject: image];

NSUserDefaults *default = [NSUserDefault standardDefaults];
[defaults setObject:image withKey:@"saved image"]; //not exact code just showing the method

I use to save the array of images

[defaults synchronize];

then i also use UserDefaults to load array but it does not work. I am wondering if there is a different way to save images without saving them to the photo library.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1846

Answers (3)

tilo
tilo

Reputation: 14169

In principle, you could save the images in NSUserDefaults using 

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) 
                                          forKey:key];

But keep in mind that NSUserDefaults is meant for storage of preferences, not images. You better save the images in the documents folder and store the path in NSUserDefaults (as suggested by Wain).

Upvotes: 2

Tarek Hallak
Tarek Hallak

Reputation: 18470

You can save them into the Document directory:

NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(imageView1.image);
NSString *imagePath = [[NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"/imageName.png"];
[imageData writeToFile:imagePath atomically:YES];

And save their URLs in NSUserDefaults:

NSUserDefaults *default = [NSUserDefault standardDefaults];
[defaults setObject:imagePath  withKey:@"saved image "];
[defaults synchronize];

And simply retrieve image:

UIImage *customImage = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:imagePath];

Upvotes: 0

Fahri Azimov
Fahri Azimov

Reputation: 11770

You cannot save images the way you want. In your case, array contains just pointers to the images, not images itself. So, one way around is, as @Wain suggested, writing image to the disk, and add path of the saved image to the array, and then saving that array to the NSUserDefaults. You can save image to the disk by converting it to the NSData, and writing it in Documents or tmp folders of application sandbox. In order to convert image to the NSData, you could use UIImageJPEGRepresentation(UIImage *image, CGFloat compressionQuality) method, and in order to write data to the disk, use writeToFile:atomically method of NSData.

Good Luck!

Upvotes: 0

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