System.Drawing.Imaging-like interface for Cocoa/iPhone image manipulation

Question

I'm looking for an image manipulation library for the iPhone/iPad, with similar functionality like System.Drawing.Imaging on the .net side.

Things I want to do:

• draw basic shapes, like elipses, rectangles, text
• draw it to a certain place on the screen, together with things like UILabels, UIViews, ... . Ideal would be the possibility to export to a data format which the UIImage control accepts (similar to the .net framework).

Does such a library exists in the standard frameworks, or do I need something else? Could you provide (a link to) some example code?

Thank you!

Yvan Janssens

Answer 1

You can do everything you need with Core Graphics and Core Text