UIView duplicate

Question

I need to duplicate a view, with all it's subviews.

Does anyone knows how to do it?

Answer 1

The easiest (but probably not the fastest) way is to archive it into an NSData object and unarchive it right away.

NSData *tempArchive = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:myView];
UIView *myViewDuplicate = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:tempArchive];

Answer 2

To archive any uiimage object simply convert them to an imagerep of one kind or another (PNG for instance) and archive that NSData object, then in the unarchive you restore the uiimage with imageWithData: