Screenshot showing up blank - Swift

Question

Hi I am making a game and I have added a share button to the game. I want the user to be able to share a message, URL, and screenshot along side each other in one message.Th

Answer 1

update: Xcode 8.2.1 • Swift 3.0.2

You need to add the import statement and this extension to your game scene:

import UIKit 

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extension UIView {
    var snapshot: UIImage? {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(bounds.size, false, 0)
        defer { UIGraphicsEndImageContext() }
        drawHierarchy(in: bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
        return UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    }
}

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let myImage = view?.snapshot

Answer 2

In WWDC 2015, What's new in UIVisualEffectView, a solution is "glossed over" for capturing a screenshot of a UIVisualEffectView containing a vibrancy label and a blur. The problem that often arises is that Apple's screenshot API tends not to capture the UIVisualEffect, resulting in a screenshot of the view without the visual effect. The solution according to WWDC 2015 involves capturing the snapshot at the window/screen; unfortunately, sample code was not shown. Following is my own implementation:

//create snapshot of the blurView
let window = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate!.window!!
//capture the entire window into an image
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(window.bounds.size, false, UIScreen.mainScreen().scale)
window.drawViewHierarchyInRect(window.bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
let windowImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
//now position the image x/y away from the top-left corner to get the portion we want
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(blurView.frame.size)
windowImage.drawAtPoint(CGPoint(x: -blurView.frame.origin.x, y: -blurView.frame.origin.y))
let croppedImage: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
//embed image in an imageView, supports transforms.
let resultImageView = UIImageView(image: croppedImage)

Note: This snapshot code will only work once ViewDidAppear has been called.