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Copy Image with UIPasteBoard (Swift)

I recently saw this project in which a user can tap on a GIF from a custom keyboard and they would see a "copied" toolip appear. I have one question:

  • How does one reproduce this tooltip in the products GIF-Tutorial?

Could anyone give me some sample code to work with. I understand how to use UIPasteboard and it's functions, but I can't seem to get it to work when I put in the UTI type "public.png" in this function: (I noticed in Objective-c it's "@public.png", but I placed "public.png" I couldn't find a source online for this)

 let imageURL = NSString(string:NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("test", ofType: "png")!)
        var data = NSData(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string:imageURL)!)
        UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard().setData(data!, forPasteboardType: "public.png")
Solution

  • Try using this code: 

    let image = UIImage(named: "myimage.png")
UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard().image = image;

    you can find out how this works here!

    Hope this helps

    Swift 5.1

    UIPasteboard.general.image = image