How Do I Take a Screen Shot of a UIView?

Question

I am wondering how my iPhone app can take a screen shot of a specific UIView as a UIImage.

I tried this code but all I get is a blank image

Answer 1

I created this extension for save a screen shot from UIView

extension UIView {
func saveImageFromView(path path:String) {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(bounds.size, false, UIScreen.mainScreen().scale)
    drawViewHierarchyInRect(bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
    let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.4)?.writeToFile(path, atomically: true)

}}

call:

let pathDocuments = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSSearchPathDirectory.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, true).first!
let pathImage = "\(pathDocuments)/\(user!.usuarioID.integerValue).jpg"
reportView.saveImageFromView(path: pathImage)

If you want to create a png must change:

UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.4)?.writeToFile(path, atomically: true)

by

UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)?.writeToFile(path, atomically: true)