Screenshot Only Part of Screen - Swift

Question

I'm using this Swift code to take a screenshot of my app:

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size, false, 0);
self.view.drawViewHierarchyInRect(view.bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
var image:UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

How would I go about taking a screenshot of only part of the screen, and not all of it, as I do here?

Answer 1

For example if you want to take the screen shot of the UIView rectangle at position (50,50) with height of (100,150).

First set the Image Context to the size of the rectangle. This sets the image size.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(CGSizeMake(100,150), false, 0);

Now draw the view in this context in such a way that, the visible part of the screenshot starts at (50,50)

self.view.drawViewHierarchyInRect(CGRectMake(-50,-50,view.bounds.size.width,view.bounds.size.height) afterScreenUpdates: true)

This clips the screen shot at (100,150) because we set the size of our context. Now take the UIImage from this.

var image:UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

Answer 2

To snapshot a view containing a UIVisualEffect (Blur/Vibrancy), see my solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33633386/802196

Answer 3

I think this is the best Answer to take a shot of part of the screen:

func screenShot() {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width*0.99,self.frame.size.height*0.70), false, 0)
    var image:UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    self.view?.drawViewHierarchyInRect(CGRectMake(-01, -01, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height), afterScreenUpdates: true)
    var screenShot  = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
}

Answer 4

for taking a snapshot selecting by area of another UIView

// viewObject: UIView linked from storyboard
var bounds= CGRect(x: -viewObject.frame.minX,y: -viewObject.frame.minY,width: view.bounds.size.width,height: view.bounds.size.height)

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(viewObject.frame.size)
        view.drawHierarchy(in: bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
        let outputImage: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()