UIImage from bytes held in NSString

Question

I am trying to create a UIImage from a byte array that is actually held within a NSString.

Can someone please tell me how I can do that?

Here is what I was think

Answer 1

To convert an image to string you need a method to convert NSData to a base64Encoded string and back (lots of examples here). The easiest ones to use are categories on NSData so you can do something like this:

UIImage* pic = [UIImage imageNamed:@"sample.png"];
NSData* pictureData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(pic);
NSString* pictureDataString = [pictureData base64Encoding];

To go the other way you need a reverse converter:

UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:[NSData 
            dataFromBase64EncodedString: pictureDataString]];