Capture Save/Load/Remove Image in documents directory

NSFileManager offers a convenient way to write images to and load them from the documents directory.
If you’re frequently doing that in your project, I suggest to wrap up NSFileManager support in three simple methods:

Save/Load/Remove Image Methods

[sourcecode lang=”c”]
//saving an image

– (void)saveImage:(UIImage*)image:(NSString*)imageName {

NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image); //convert image into .png format.

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

NSString *fullPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@.png”, imageName]];

[fileManager createFileAtPath:fullPath contents:imageData attributes:nil];

NSLog(@”image saved”);

}

//removing an image

– (void)removeImage:(NSString*)fileName {

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

NSString *fullPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@.png”, fileName]];

[fileManager removeItemAtPath: fullPath error:NULL];

NSLog(@”image removed”);

}

//loading an image

– (UIImage*)loadImage:(NSString*)imageName {

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

NSString *fullPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@.png”, imageName]];

return [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:fullPath];

}
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Now, you can easily save an image like:

[sourcecode lang=”c”][self saveImage: myUIImage: @”myUIImageName”];[/sourcecode]

or load it like:

[sourcecode lang=”c”]myUIImage = [self loadImage: @”myUIImageName”];[/sourcecode]

or remove it like:

[sourcecode lang=”c”][self removeImage: @”myUIImageName”];[/sourcecode]

Capture an image

[sourcecode lang=”c”]
– (UIImage*) getGLScreenshot {
NSInteger myDataLength = 320 * 480 * 4;

// allocate array and read pixels into it.
GLubyte *buffer = (GLubyte *) malloc(myDataLength);
glReadPixels(0, 0, 320, 480, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, buffer);

// gl renders “upside down” so swap top to bottom into new array.
// there’s gotta be a better way, but this works.
GLubyte *buffer2 = (GLubyte *) malloc(myDataLength);
for(int y = 0; y <480; y++) { for(int x = 0; x <320 * 4; x++) { buffer2[(479 - y) * 320 * 4 + x] = buffer[y * 4 * 320 + x]; } } // make data provider with data. CGDataProviderRef provider = CGDataProviderCreateWithData(NULL, buffer2, myDataLength, NULL); // prep the ingredients int bitsPerComponent = 8; int bitsPerPixel = 32; int bytesPerRow = 4 * 320; CGColorSpaceRef colorSpaceRef = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); CGBitmapInfo bitmapInfo = kCGBitmapByteOrderDefault; CGColorRenderingIntent renderingIntent = kCGRenderingIntentDefault; // make the cgimage CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreate(320, 480, bitsPerComponent, bitsPerPixel, bytesPerRow, colorSpaceRef, bitmapInfo, provider, NULL, NO, renderingIntent); // then make the uiimage from that UIImage *myImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef]; return myImage; } - (void)saveGLScreenshotToPhotosAlbum { UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum([self getGLScreenshot], nil, nil, nil); } [/sourcecode]