Export CGPath as JPG or PNG

Question

Is it possible to take a path draw in an UIView with CGPath and export it as a PNG?

Answer 1

The cleanest way to do that is to perform the whole drawing again in an image context produced by UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(), get an UIImage out of it, then save it via the UIImagePNG/JPEGRepresentation() functions.

Note that UIView do not "hold" images. You can rerender a UIView's layer, but it's a gross violation of MVC (you're using views to store model data!), and it doesn't look clean to me.

Answer 2

Assuming you want a UIImage, not a png file, you can do something like this:

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size); 
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(context, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0);
CGContextSetLineCap(context, kCGLineCapSquare);

//DRAW YOUR PATH HERE

CGContextStrokePath(context);

myUIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
[myUIImage retain];  

UIGraphicsEndImageContext();