Get SwiftUI Image Data

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I’m looking for the easiest and most efficient way to convert a SwiftUI Image to Data so that I can store it in SwiftData.

let image: Image

let data: Data = GetImageData(image: image)

How would I implement the GetImageData function above?

I have found examples of how to do so with UIImage but not Image.

Answered by DTS Engineer in 813658022

A SwiftUI Image is a View and not a image data. You can use ImageRenderer to create an image from SwiftUI views. That way you could extrapolate the cgImage and binary data.

That said, I would like to know what you’re trying to do with the Image perhaps they could be a better approach. Couldn't you cache the binary data before rendering the SwiftUI Image?

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A SwiftUI Image is a View and not a image data. You can use ImageRenderer to create an image from SwiftUI views. That way you could extrapolate the cgImage and binary data.

That said, I would like to know what you’re trying to do with the Image perhaps they could be a better approach. Couldn't you cache the binary data before rendering the SwiftUI Image?

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