Issue when drawing image on canvas on iPad - ios

Question

I'm working on an HTML5 project, that will run in a WKWebView on iPad.
I'm doing everything programatically.
My WKWebView frame takes the full screen, viewport is 1180x820,
so I set my canvas size and height to 1180x820 too.
Here is my original picture I'd like to display:
But when I'm displaying an 1920x1080 image on my canvas with the drawImage function,
the image does not fit on the screen (obsviously) but is really well displayed (not blurred).
_canvasContext.drawImage(imgMenu,0,0,1920,1080).
So I rescale the image when drawing it, still with the drawImage function.
_canvasContext.drawImage(imgMenu,0,0,1920/2,1080/2)
The image fits in the screen, but is blurred.
The downscaling is really really bad (it really could be better, this example is not the worst one).
I already tried the parameters
_canvasContext.imageSmoothingEnabled = true;
_canvasContext.webkitImageSmoothingEnabled = true;
_canvasContext.mozImageSmoothingEnabled = true;
_canvasContext.imageSmoothingQuality = "high";
It does not help.
Maybe I do something wrong, I don't understand what to do.
Screen resolution of my ipad is 2360x1640, so displaying a 1920x1080 picture should not be a problem.
If anyone could help me, that would save my life :)
Best regards,
Alex

Answer 1

This is one of those annoying and confusing things about canvas. What you need to do is size the canvas using devicePixelRatio. This will increase the actual size of the canvas to match the pixel density of the device. This could be 2, or 1.5 etc... a retina screen is often 2.
For drawing your image, the smart way is to support any image size and fit it into the canvas area (usually scaling down). With a tiny image, this code will scale up and lose resolution.
const IMAGE_URL = 'https://unsplash.it/1920/1080';
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
const _canvasContext = canvas.getContext('2d');
// you will probably want this, unless you want to support many screen sizes in which case you will actually want the window size:
/*
const width = 1180;
const height = 820;
*/
const width = window.innerWidth
const height = window.innerHeight
const ratio = window.devicePixelRatio;
// size the canvas to use pixel ratio
canvas.width = Math.round(width * ratio);
canvas.height = Math.round(height * ratio);
// downsize the canvas with css - making it
// retina compatible
canvas.style.width = width + 'px';
canvas.style.height = height + 'px';
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
_canvasContext.fillStyle = 'gray'
_canvasContext.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
function drawImage(url) {
const img = new Image()
img.addEventListener('load', () => {
// find a good scale value to fit the image
// on the canvas
const scale = Math.min(
canvas.width / img.width,
canvas.height / img.height
);
// calculate image size and padding
const scaledWidth = img.width * scale;
const scaledHeight = img.height * scale;
const padX = scaledWidth < canvas.width ? canvas.width - scaledWidth : 0;
const padY = scaledHeight < canvas.height ? canvas.height - scaledHeight : 0;
_canvasContext.drawImage(img, padX / 2, padY / 2, scaledWidth, scaledHeight);
})
img.src = url;
}
drawImage(IMAGE_URL);
body,html {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
As mentioned in a comment in the code snippet. If your want your canvas to always use 1180x820... be sure to change the width and height variables:
const width = 1180;
const height = 820;
For the purposes of the snippet I used the window size. Which may be better for you if you wish to support other device sizes.