Ios – Rotating UIImage in Swift

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I'm using Xcode 6.0.1 with Swift. I have a UIImage, and I would like to make another image using the old image as a source, with the new image being rotated in some way… say flipped vertically.

This question was already answered a few months ago. However, that solution doesn't work for me, even though the situation is identical.

When I have 

var image = UIImage(CGImage: otherImage.CGImage, scale: 1.0, orientation: .DownMirrored)

Xcode complains that there's an "Extra argument 'scale' in call". After checking with the Apple documentation, this makes no sense, as that version of the initializer does take those three arguments. Leaving out the scale and orientation arguments does fix the problem, but prevents me from doing the rotation.

The only other reference to this that I can find is this guy, who had the same problem.

What do you think?

I do need this to run on this version of Xcode, so if there's an alternate way to perform the rotation (I haven't found one yet) that would be useful.

Best Answer

Swift 5 Solution

I wrote Pixel SDK which offers a more powerful solution to this problem, otherwise here is the simplest solution:

extension UIImage {
    func rotate(radians: Float) -> UIImage? {
        var newSize = CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: self.size).applying(CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: CGFloat(radians))).size
        // Trim off the extremely small float value to prevent core graphics from rounding it up
        newSize.width = floor(newSize.width)
        newSize.height = floor(newSize.height)

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, false, self.scale)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!

        // Move origin to middle
        context.translateBy(x: newSize.width/2, y: newSize.height/2)
        // Rotate around middle
        context.rotate(by: CGFloat(radians))
        // Draw the image at its center
        self.draw(in: CGRect(x: -self.size.width/2, y: -self.size.height/2, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height))

        let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return newImage
    }
}

and to use this solution you can do the following

let image = UIImage(named: "image.png")!
let newImage = image.rotate(radians: .pi/2) // Rotate 90 degrees
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