Rotate UIImage in swift

Question

I want to rotate UIImage in clockwise direction. But my current code do not perform function accurate some time it rotate and some time its skip rotation. I want my UIImage will

Answer 1

I believe it's worth to post solution using CoreImage. It's just couple of lines and it works great for me.

Please note: when getting final UIImage, it's necessary to convert to CGImage first to respect extent of CIImage

extension UIImage {
    func imageRotated(by degrees: CGFloat) -> UIImage {

        let orientation = CGImagePropertyOrientation(imageOrientation)
        // Create CIImage respecting image's orientation 
        guard let inputImage = CIImage(image: self)?.oriented(orientation) 
            else { return self }

        // Rotate the image itself
        let rotation = CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: (degrees * CGFloat.pi / 180))
        let outputImage = inputImage.transformed(by: rotation)

        // Create CGImage first
        guard let cgImage = CIContext().createCGImage(outputImage, from: outputImage.extent) 
            else { return self }

        // Create output UIImage from CGImage
        return UIImage(cgImage: cgImage)
    }
}

Answer 2

This works for me:

works Fine :)

func imageRotatedByDegrees(oldImage: UIImage, deg degrees: CGFloat) -> UIImage {
    //Calculate the size of the rotated view's containing box for our drawing space
    let rotatedViewBox: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, oldImage.size.width, oldImage.size.height))
    let t: CGAffineTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(degrees * CGFloat(M_PI / 180))
    rotatedViewBox.transform = t
    let rotatedSize: CGSize = rotatedViewBox.frame.size
    //Create the bitmap context
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rotatedSize)
    let bitmap: CGContextRef = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
    //Move the origin to the middle of the image so we will rotate and scale around the center.
    CGContextTranslateCTM(bitmap, rotatedSize.width / 2, rotatedSize.height / 2)
    //Rotate the image context
    CGContextRotateCTM(bitmap, (degrees * CGFloat(M_PI / 180)))
    //Now, draw the rotated/scaled image into the context
    CGContextScaleCTM(bitmap, 1.0, -1.0)
    CGContextDrawImage(bitmap, CGRectMake(-oldImage.size.width / 2, -oldImage.size.height / 2, oldImage.size.width, oldImage.size.height), oldImage.CGImage)
    let newImage: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return newImage
}

Swift 3:

func imageRotatedByDegrees(oldImage: UIImage, deg degrees: CGFloat) -> UIImage {
    //Calculate the size of the rotated view's containing box for our drawing space
    let rotatedViewBox: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: oldImage.size.width, height: oldImage.size.height))
    let t: CGAffineTransform = CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: degrees * CGFloat.pi / 180)
    rotatedViewBox.transform = t
    let rotatedSize: CGSize = rotatedViewBox.frame.size
    //Create the bitmap context
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rotatedSize)
    let bitmap: CGContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
    //Move the origin to the middle of the image so we will rotate and scale around the center.
    bitmap.translateBy(x: rotatedSize.width / 2, y: rotatedSize.height / 2)
    //Rotate the image context
    bitmap.rotate(by: (degrees * CGFloat.pi / 180))
    //Now, draw the rotated/scaled image into the context
    bitmap.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
    bitmap.draw(oldImage.cgImage!, in: CGRect(x: -oldImage.size.width / 2, y: -oldImage.size.height / 2, width: oldImage.size.width, height: oldImage.size.height))
    let newImage: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return newImage
}