How to compress/resize image on iOS before uploading to a server?

Solution 1:

This snippet will resize the image:

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);
[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0,0,newSize.width,newSize.height)];
UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

The variable newSize is a CGSize and can be defined like so:

CGSize newSize = CGSizeMake(100.0f, 100.0f);

Solution 2:

A self-contained solution:

- (UIImage *)compressForUpload:(UIImage *)original scale:(CGFloat)scale
{
    // Calculate new size given scale factor.
    CGSize originalSize = original.size;
    CGSize newSize = CGSizeMake(originalSize.width * scale, originalSize.height * scale);

    // Scale the original image to match the new size.
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);
    [original drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height)];
    UIImage *compressedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return compressedImage;
}

Thanks to @Tuan Nguyen.

Solution 3:

To complement @Tuan Nguyen, this is maybe the fastest and most elegant way to do that.

To link to John Muchow's post at iphonedevelopertips.com , adding a category to a UIImage is a very very handy way to scale in a very fast fashion. Just calling

    UIImage *_image = [[[UIImage alloc] initWithData:SOME_NSDATA] scaleToSize:CGSizeMake(640.0,480.0)];

returns you a 640x480 representation image of your NSDATA ( that could be an online image ) without any more line of code.

Solution 4:

Matt Gemmell's MGImageUtilities are very nice, resizing efficiently and with some effort-reducing methods.

Solution 5:

In this code 0.5 means 50% ...

UIImage *original = image;
UIImage *compressedImage = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(original, 0.5f);