image compression by size - iPhone SDK

Question

I would like to compress images (camera/photo library) and then send it to the server. I know I can compress by height and width, but I would like to compress the images by

Answer 1

I took the answer of @kgutteridge and made a similar solution for Swift 3.0 using recursive:

extension UIImage {
    static func compress(image: UIImage, maxFileSize: Int, compression: CGFloat = 1.0, maxCompression: CGFloat = 0.4) -> Data? {

        if let data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, compression) {

            let bcf = ByteCountFormatter()
            bcf.allowedUnits = [.useMB] // optional: restricts the units to MB only
            bcf.countStyle = .file
            let string = bcf.string(fromByteCount: Int64(data.count))
            print("Data size is: \(string)")

            if data.count > (maxFileSize * 1024 * 1024) && (compression > maxCompression) {
                let newCompression = compression - 0.1
                let compressedData = self.compress(image: image, maxFileSize: maxFileSize, compression: newCompression, maxCompression: maxCompression)
                return compressedData
            }

            return data
        }

        return nil
    }
}