I'm trying to capture a screenshot of the detail view in a landscape master/detail layout on iPad.
This is the code I've tried using.
UIWindow *keyWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
CGRect rect = [self.view bounds];
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, YES, 0.0f);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[keyWindow.layer renderInContext:context];
UIImage *capturedScreen = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
Two problems occur with this.
- the screen capture orientation is incorrect. I get an image that is on it's side.
- The width=703 & height=768 dimensions are reversed by the screen capture so I end up with some of the master view in the detail screen shot.
What am I doing wrong here? Thanks!
try this way
-(UIImage *)captureScreenForRect:(CGRect)frame
{
CALayer *layer;
layer = self.view.layer;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.bounds.size);
CGContextClipToRect (UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(),self.view.bounds);
[layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *screenImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return screenImage;
}
pass your detail view frame rect for above method. hope this will help you
The "official" screenshot method is here:
(https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1703/_index.html)
If you need this for a transition or for a graphical effect and your using iOS 7 - I suggest you don't actually create an image.
An image can be heavy to generate (for example on iPAd Retina 3rd Gen) and heavy on the memory.
Starting iOS 7 Apple gives you a much quicker Snapshot function on UIView (Which by the way is also the way they implement custom transitions in view controllers , blur effect etc) that is done much quicker then creating an actual image.
On a UIView you can perform:
- (UIView *)snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
Or if you need the full view hierarchy for a blurred view:
- (BOOL)drawViewHierarchyInRect:(CGRect)rect afterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
Related
I'm trying in my app to take a screenshot of the current screen contents, where my TilingView (based on CATiledLayers) displays a number of transparent large tiled images.
Also I added some subViews to the TilingView, which are magically captured in the screenshot, however the underlying contents of the TilingView is not captured!??
The following code-snippets takes a snapshot of the visible screen, which seems to work well for a NON CATiledLayer based view-hierarchy, but unfortunately doesn't work for my setup. Even if I pass the topmost superview of the TilingView (being the actual UIViewController.view), I see only in my snapshot the StatusBar, NavigationBar, the TilingViews subViews and the TabBar, but again NOT the TilingViews contents.
- (UIImage*)captureView:(UIView *)viewToCapture {
CGRect rect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[viewToCapture.layer renderInContext:context];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image;
}
Does anybody know or see here what I'm missing? Do I need to delve deeper into the CG-related display stack with some, for me, unknown CG-API calls? Thanks in advance.
By searching some more in StackOverflow I've found code which seems to do what I wanted. Basically I need to change the above method into:
- (UIImage*)captureView:(UIView*)viewToCapture {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(viewToCapture.bounds.size, NO, [UIScreen mainScreen].scale);
[viewToCapture drawViewHierarchyInRect:viewToCapture.bounds afterScreenUpdates:YES];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image;
}
Thanks go to the question/answer at: How to get a screenshot of a view containing GPUImageView?
I've searched a lot but only found two methods to take screen shot of UIView.
first renderInContext:
I've used it in a way
CGContextRef context = [self createBitmapContextOfSize:CGSizeMake(nImageWidth, nImageHeight)];
CGAffineTransform flipVertical = CGAffineTransformMake(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, nImageHeight);
CGContextConcatCTM(context, flipVertical);
[self.layer setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor].CGColor];
[self.layer renderInContext:context];
CGImageRef cgImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);
UIImage* background = [UIImage imageWithCGImage: cgImage];
CGImageRelease(cgImage);
Second drawViewHierarchyInRect: which I've used as
UIImage *background = nil;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions (self.bounds.size, NO, self.window.screen.scale);
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates:)])
{
[self drawViewHierarchyInRect:self.bounds afterScreenUpdates:YES];
}
background = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
I know that the second one is faster than first and it work for me for iPhone because the view has low size. but when I capturing from iPad the video become jerky.
Can Any body tell me faster way of taking screen shot.
any help would be highly appreciated
Regarding performance, the Apple Docs state the following:
In addition to -drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates:, UIView
now provides another two snapshot related methods,
-snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates: and -resizableSnapshotViewFromRect:afterScreenUpdates:withCapInsets:. UIScreen also has -snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:.
Unlike UIView's -drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates:, these
methods return a UIView object. If you are looking for a new snapshot
view, use one of
these methods. It will be more efficient than calling
-drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates: to render the view contents into a bitmap image yourself. You can use the returned view
as a visual stand-in for the current view/screen in your app. For
example, you might use a snapshot view for animations where updating a
large view hierarchy might be expensive.
There is a third method for taking a snapshot that is much much quicker than either of these but it returns a UIView.
- (UIView *)snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
If you are just using the snapshot to place as a background "image" etc... then I'd use this instead.
However, this is only available for iOS8.
To use it just do...
UIView *snapshotView = [someView snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:YES];
This Method will return you A snapshot images of particular view
-(UIImage *)createSnapShotImagesFromUIview
{
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(view.frame.size.width,view.frame.size.height));
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[mapView.layer renderInContext:context];
UIImage *img_screenShot = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return img_screenShot;
}
I'm trying to save the currently shown views on my iOS device for a certain app, and this is working properly. But I've got a problem as soon as I'm trying to save a UIImageView in Landscape orientation.
See the following image that describes my problem:
I'm using Auto layout for this app, and it runs on both iPhone and iPad. It seems like the ImageView is always saved as shown in portrait mode, and I'm a little bit stuck right now.
This is the code I use:
CGSize frameSize = self.view.frame.size;
if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(self.interfaceOrientation)) {
frameSize = CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.height, self.view.frame.size.width);
}
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(frameSize, NO, 0.0);
CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGFloat scale = CGRectGetWidth(self.view.frame) / CGRectGetWidth(self.view.bounds);
CGContextScaleCTM(ctx, scale, scale);
[self.view.layer renderInContext:ctx];
[self.delegate photoSaved:UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()];
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
Looking forward to your help!
I still have no idea what your exact issue is but using your screenshot code makes a bit strange image (not rotated or anything though, just too small). Can you try this code instead please.
+ (UIImage *)imageFromView:(UIView *)view {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.opaque, .0f);
[view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage * img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return img;
}
Other then that you must understand there is a huge difference between UIImage and CGImage as the UIImage includes the orientation while CGImage does not. When dealing with image transformations it is usually with the CGImage and getting its width or height will discard the orientation. That means a CGImage will have flipped dimensions when its orientation is not up (UIImageOrientationUp). But usually when dealing with such images you create a CGImage from the context and then use [UIImage imageWithCGImage:ref scale:1.0f orientation:originalOrientation]. Only if you wish to explicitly rotate the image so it has no orientation (being UIImageOrientationUp) you need to rotate and translate the image and draw it onto the context.
Anyway, this orientation issues are quite fixed by now, UIImagePNGRepresentation respects the orientation and you have an image constructor from the CGImage already written above which is what used to be missing in the past if I remember correctly.
I believe the NDA is down, so I can ask this question. I have a UIView subclass:
BlurView *blurredView = ((BlurView *)[self.view snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:NO]);
blurredView.frame = self.view.frame;
[self.view addSubview:blurredView];
It does its job so far in capturing the screen, but now I want to blur that view. How exactly do I go about this? From what I've read I need to capture the current contents of the view (context?!) and convert it to CIImage (no?) and then apply a CIGaussianBlur to it and draw it back on the view.
How exactly do I do that?
P.S. The view is not animated, so it should be OK performance wise.
EDIT: Here is what I have so far. The problem is that I can't capture the snapshot to a UIImage, I get a black screen. But if I add the view as a subview directly, I can see the snapshot is there.
// Snapshot
UIView *view = [self.view snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:NO];
// Convert to UIImage
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.opaque, 0.0);
[view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
// Apply the UIImage to a UIImageView
BlurView *blurredView = [[BlurView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 500, 500)];
[self.view addSubview:blurredView];
blurredView.imageView.image = img;
// Black screen -.-
BlurView.m:
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
self.imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
self.imageView.frame = CGRectMake(20, 20, 200, 200);
[self addSubview:self.imageView];
}
return self;
}
Half of this question didn't get answered, so I thought it worth adding.
The problem with UIScreen's
- (UIView *)snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
and UIView's
- (UIView *)resizableSnapshotViewFromRect:(CGRect)rect
afterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
withCapInsets:(UIEdgeInsets)capInsets
Is that you can't derive a UIImage from them - the 'black screen' problem.
In iOS7 Apple provides a third piece of API for extracting UIImages, a method on UIView
- (BOOL)drawViewHierarchyInRect:(CGRect)rect
afterScreenUpdates:(BOOL)afterUpdates
It is not as fast as snapshotView, but not bad compared to renderInContext (in the example provided by Apple it is five times faster than renderInContext and three times slower than snapshotView)
Example use:
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(image.size, NULL, 0);
[view drawViewHierarchyInRect:rect];
UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
Then to get a blurred version
UIImage* lightImage = [newImage applyLightEffect];
where applyLightEffect is one of those Blur category methods on Apple's UIImage+ImageEffects category mentioned in the accepted answer (the enticing link to this code sample in the accepted answer doesn't work, but this one will get you to the right page: the file you want is iOS_UIImageEffects).
The main reference is to WWDC2013 session 226, Implementing Engaging UI on iOS
By the way, there is an intriguing note in Apple's reference docs for renderInContext that hints at the black screen problem..
Important: The OS X v10.5 implementation of this method does not support the entire Core Animation composition model. QCCompositionLayer, CAOpenGLLayer, and QTMovieLayer layers are not rendered. Additionally, layers that use 3D transforms are not rendered, nor are layers that specify backgroundFilters, filters, compositingFilter, or a mask values. Future versions of OS X may add support for rendering these layers and properties.
The note hasn't been updated since 10.5, so I guess 'future versions' may still be a while off, and we can add our new CASnapshotLayer (or whatever) to the list.
Sample Code from WWDC ios_uiimageeffects
There is a UIImage category named UIImage+ImageEffects
Here is its API:
- (UIImage *)applyLightEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyExtraLightEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyDarkEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyTintEffectWithColor:(UIColor *)tintColor;
- (UIImage *)applyBlurWithRadius:(CGFloat)blurRadius
tintColor:(UIColor *)tintColor
saturationDeltaFactor:(CGFloat)saturationDeltaFactor
maskImage:(UIImage *)maskImage;
For legal reason I can't show the implementation here, there is a demo project in it. should be pretty easy to get start with.
To summarize how to do this with foundry's sample code, use the following:
I wanted to blur the entire screen just slightly so for my purposes so I'll use the main screen bounds.
CGRect screenCaptureRect = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
UIView *viewWhereYouWantToScreenCapture = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
//screen capture code
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(screenCaptureRect.size, NO, [UIScreen mainScreen].scale);
[viewWhereYouWantToScreenCapture drawViewHierarchyInRect:screenCaptureRect afterScreenUpdates:NO];
UIImage *capturedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
//blur code
UIColor *tintColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1.0 alpha:0];
UIImage *blurredImage = [capturedImage applyBlurWithRadius:1.5 tintColor:tintColor saturationDeltaFactor:1.2 maskImage:nil];
//or use [capturedImage applyLightAffect] but I thought that was too much for me
//use blurredImage in whatever way you so desire!
Notes on the screen capture part
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions() 2nd argument is opacity. It should be NO unless you have nothing with any alpha other than 1. If you return yes the screen capture will not look at transparency values so it will go faster but will probably be wrong.
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions() 3rd argument is the scale. Probably want to put in the scale of the device like I did to make sure and differentiate between retina and non-retina. But I haven't really tested this and I think 0.0f also works.
drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates: watch out what you return for the screen updates BOOL. I tried to do this right before backgrounding and if I didn't put NO the app would go crazy with glitches when I returned to the foreground. You might be able to get away with YES though if you're not leaving the app.
Notes on blurring
I have a very light blur here. Changing the blurRadius will make it blurrier, and you can change the tint color and alpha to make all sorts of other effects.
Also you need to add a category for the blur methods to work...
How to add the UIImage+ImageEffects category
You need to download the category UIImage+ImageEffects for the blur to work. Download it here after logging in: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=WWDC%202013
Search for "UIImageEffects" and you'll find it. Just pull out the 2 necessary files and add them to your project. UIImage+ImageEffects.h and UIImage+ImageEffects.m.
Also, I had to Enable Modules in my build settings because I had a project that wasn't created with xCode 5. To do this go to your target build settings and search for "modules" and make sure that "Enable Modules" and "Link Frameworks Automatically" are both set to yes or you'll have compiler errors with the new category.
Good luck blurring!
Check WWDC 2013 sample application "running with a snap".
The blurring is there implemented as a category.
What i want to achieve is to take an image of an UIView which has not been added as a subview, present and do stuff with the image and afterwards add the view to the view hierarchy.
I've searched and tried now for a while and believe, that it is simply not possible.
Obviously the problem is, that the view hasn't been drawn (called drawRect: i guess) if it hasn't been added as a subview.
Actually i thought renderInContext: would call drawRect/layer on its own.
It isn't even enough to add it as subview right before draw it to an imageContext because it won't be rendered immediately.
I take the screenshot with renderInContext: with the layer of the view, see my code here:
[self.view addSubView:view];
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.frame.size, YES, 0);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -frame.origin.x, -frame.origin.y);
[view.layer renderInContext:context];
UIImage *renderedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
So my question is, has anybody managed to render a not visible UIView and if how?
Well this is awkward.
After a mail conversation with a very kind apple dev support, we reviewed my code and we noticed that i simply set the hidden property to YES. - Just don't do that.
So it is straight forward to make a screenshot of a view which is not in the view hierarchy.
It was total my fault why it didn't work.
Try to addd UIView to hierarchy but keep it hidden.
- (void)takeScreenSnapshot {
UIView *capturedView = self.view;
UIView *hiddenView = self.hiddeniew; // hidden view which is
// a part of capturedView
hiddenView.hidden = NO;
BOOL retina = [self isRetinaDisplay];
UIImage *image = [capturedView captureImageWithScale:(retina) ? 2.f : 1.f];
hiddenView.hidden = YES;
}