Capture UIImage of UIView including UINavigationBar

Question

I found this code which is quite nice:

+ (UIImage *) imageWithView:(UIView *)view
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.opaque, [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale]); 
    [view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
    UIImage * img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return img;
}

But I need to capture UINavigationBar as well because i want to use the image as transition layer in my UIStoryboardSegue. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use your view's window as the view so the navigation bar and status bar will be included, too. If you need to remove the status bar, you'll have to crop the image.

Answer 2

You should take a screenshot of self.navigationController?.view . That way you get the whole view with navigationBar but without status bar.

if let view = self.navigationController?.view {
    let snapshot = view.snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates(false)
}