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theflarenet
theflarenet

Reputation: 656

Retrieving UIImage from UIImageView in Swift

I've found the solution but it is not in Swift: Converting UIImageView to UIImage

I've even went rogue by trying to implement it in Swift by using UnsafeMutablePointed and had no luck.

However, pointers are typically frowned upon in Swift and it would be nice if there was a simple one-liner solution to this!

Example Code:

let test1:UIImageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "test")) 
let test2 = test1.image // This fails with an error: Instance member ‘test1’ cannot be used on type ‘viewController’

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8143

Answers (2)

Aaron Rasmussen
Aaron Rasmussen

Reputation: 13316

The UIImageView has a property called image which stores its UIImage. So to retrieve an UIImageView's image, all you need to do is access the property:

let myImage = imageView.image

That's really all there is to it.

Upvotes: 3

tktsubota
tktsubota

Reputation: 9391

I highly advise you to learn about Objective-C, as that will help you greatly in finding out how to do things in iOS (Cocoa-Touch).

The solution is identical to Objective-C:

imageView.image

Upvotes: 8

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