how to take a screenshot of the iPhone programmatically?

Question

Is it possible in objective C that we can take the screen shot of screen and stored this image in UIImage.

Answer 1

The previous code assumes that the view to be captured lives on the main screen...it might not.

Would this work to always capture the content of the main window? (warning: compiled in StackOverflow)

- (UIImage *) captureScreen {
    UIWindow *keyWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
    CGRect rect = [keyWindow bounds];
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    [keyWindow.layer renderInContext:context];   
    UIImage *img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return img;
}