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

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.window.bounds.size);
[self.window.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
NSData * data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);
[data writeToFile:@"foo.png" atomically:YES];

UPDATE April 2011: for retina display, change the first line into this:

if ([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector:@selector(scale)])
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.window.bounds.size, NO, [UIScreen mainScreen].scale);
}
else
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.window.bounds.size);
}