Storing images locally on an iOS device

Question

Some iOS photo-related apps store images created with the app somewhere other than the photo library. For example Fat Booth shows a scrolling list of photos created with the

Answer 1

For Swift:

let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(selectedImage)
let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0] as String
let imagePath = paths.stringByAppendingPathComponent("cached.png")

if !imageData.writeToFile(imagePath, atomically: false)
{
   println("not saved")
} else {
   println("saved")
   NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(imagePath, forKey: "imagePath")
}

For Swift 2.1:

let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(selectedImage)
let documentsURL = NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)[0]
let imageURL = documentsURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("cached.png")

if !imageData.writeToURL(imageURL, atomically: false)
{
    print("not saved")
} else {
    print("saved")
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(imageData, forKey: "imagePath")
}

stringByAppendingPathComponent is unavailable in Swift 2.1 so you can use URLByAppendingPathComponent. Get more info here.