How exactly to make a CGImageRef from an image on disk

Question

I\'ve looked around everywhere to no avail. I\'m doing some image loading in a thread and since UIKit is not thread safe I\'m going to have to store the images as CGImageRef

Answer 1

I think the simplest way is to use UIKit and use the CGImage propriety of UIImage.

Something like that :

UIImage* image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Your Image.png"];
CGImageRef imageRef = image.CGImage;