How to increase quality of rendered image for UIImageView? - swift

Question

I have an UIImageView with contentMode = .aspectFit. I have an image in imageView, which dimension is bigger than size of imageView. User can draw some lines and save them as sublayer. After that I need to save the edited image. But quality of saved image is worse than quality of image which I load.
What am I doing wrong? I tried to use transform, but it didn't work.
import UIKit
extension UIImageView {
var contentClippingRect: CGRect {
let imgViewSize = self.frame.size
let imgSize = self.image?.size ?? .zero
let scaleW = imgViewSize.width / imgSize.width
let scaleH = imgViewSize.height / imgSize.height
let aspect = fmin(scaleW, scaleH)
let width = imgSize.width * aspect
let height = imgSize.height * aspect
let imageRect = CGRect(x: (imgViewSize.width-width)/2 + self.frame.origin.x, y: (imgViewSize.height-height)/2 + self.frame.origin.y, width: width, height: height)
return imageRect
}
func asImage() -> UIImage {
let imageRect = self.contentClippingRect
let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(bounds: imageRect)
let renderedImage = renderer.image { rendererContext in
layer.render(in: rendererContext.cgContext)
}
return renderedImage
}
}

Answer 1

You can use UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat().scale it will increase quality of the rendered image a bit.
import UIKit
extension UIImageView {
var contentClippingRect: CGRect {
let imgViewSize = self.frame.size
let imgSize = self.image?.size ?? .zero
let scaleW = imgViewSize.width / imgSize.width
let scaleH = imgViewSize.height / imgSize.height
let aspect = fmin(scaleW, scaleH)
let width = imgSize.width * aspect
let height = imgSize.height * aspect
let imageRect = CGRect(x: (imgViewSize.width-width)/2 + self.frame.origin.x, y: (imgViewSize.height-height)/2 + self.frame.origin.y, width: width, height: height)
return imageRect
}
func asImage() -> UIImage {
let imageRect = self.contentClippingRect
//add this
let format = UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat()
format.scale = 2
let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(bounds: imageRect, format: format)
let renderedImage = renderer.image { rendererContext in
layer.render(in: rendererContext.cgContext)
}
return renderedImage
}
}