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Swift: Edit image taken from camera to fill a UIImageView

I have used a UIImageView that takes its image from the default camera app using UIPicker. But the image I am getting is too small to fit into the image view and if I use:

        imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleToFill

While this indeed scales to fit the image view the picture looks like it has been mashed up and not particularly good. I was wondering if it was possible to scale the image up in such a way that the quality of the image does not get bad.

I am using Swift 1.2 and thanks for any help! :D

Solution

  • It will work with:

    myImageView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit

    Camera images are usually bigger than a UIImageView on a device. To shrink them quickly to a visible size, the best way is to set the .contentView property of UIImageView to .ScaleAspectFit.