Cropping an UIImage

Question

I\'ve got some code that resizes an image so I can get a scaled chunk of the center of the image - I use this to take a UIImage and return a small, square repre

Answer 1

Swift 3 version

func cropImage(imageToCrop:UIImage, toRect rect:CGRect) -> UIImage{
    
    let imageRef:CGImage = imageToCrop.cgImage!.cropping(to: rect)!
    let cropped:UIImage = UIImage(cgImage:imageRef)
    return cropped
}


let imageTop:UIImage  = UIImage(named:"one.jpg")! // add validation

with help of this bridge function CGRectMake -> CGRect (credits to this answer answered by @rob mayoff):

 func CGRectMake(_ x: CGFloat, _ y: CGFloat, _ width: CGFloat, _ height: CGFloat) -> CGRect {
    return CGRect(x: x, y: y, width: width, height: height)
}

The usage is:

if var image:UIImage  = UIImage(named:"one.jpg"){
   let  croppedImage = cropImage(imageToCrop: image, toRect: CGRectMake(
        image.size.width/4,
        0,
        image.size.width/2,
        image.size.height)
    )
}

Output: