How can I convert FBProfilePictureView to an UIImage?

Question

Everything is working fine with FBProfilePictureView but I need to get that picture from FBProfilePictureView and turn it into an UIImage.

How should I do it?

Answer 1

Here the solution.

steps:

Make sure that you assigned the FB user id to object of class "FBProfilePictureView" in my case this class object is "userPictureImageView"

-(void)saveFBUserImage
{

    CGSize imageSize = self.userPictureImageView.frame.size;

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(imageSize);
    CGContextRef imageContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    [self.userPictureImageView.layer renderInContext: imageContext];
    UIImage* viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(viewImage,1);

    UIImage * img = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData]; 

    NSString *filePath  =  ;

    CGSize size = img.size;

    if(size.height > 50)
        size.height = 50;
    if(size.width > 50)
        size.width = 50;

    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f,  size.width, size.height); 
    CGSize size2 = rect.size;

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size2);

    [img drawInRect:rect];
    img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    NSData *newImageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(img, 1.0);
    [newImageData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
}

That's it. :-)