Image from data or UIImage

[Louis-PAGNIER]

Hello !
Is there any way to create an Image from stored data or UIImage with Skip ?

[marcprux]

If your image is stored in an assert catalog or in a URL in your app's Bundle, you can load it through one of the methods described at https://skip.tools/docs/modules/skip-ui/#images

We don't currently implement UIImage in SkipUI. If this is an API you need/want, can you outline your use case? We might be able to add some limited support, or suggest an alternative implementation.

[Louis-PAGNIER]

Thank you for your reply.

My images are not defined, instead the user select them from a view using Pixabay or a PhotosPicker. Currently they are rescale then stored as part of a struct with SwiftData. For the storage I plan to switch to SkipSql, but for images I don't know if it is possible to load them from bytes like in SwiftUI.

[marcprux]

There's unfortunately no SwiftUI.Image(data:) constructor, so if you are wanting to load an image from a Data or byte array, your best bet right now would be to store it to a local URL and then load it with AsyncImage(url:). Something like:

let data: Data = picker.imageData
let url: URL = URL.temporaryDirectory.appendingPathComponent("my-image-\(UUID().uuidString).png")
try data.write(to: url)

// now display the image in a view
AsyncImage(url: url) 

If you don't want to write to the file system, you could also construct a "data:" URL with the base64-encoded bytes, which should also work with AsyncImage.

Let us know if either of these work for you.

[Louis-PAGNIER]

Thank you, I will try next week to port my app to Skip, I was currently just informing if everything would be possible.
I also have a last question, is PhotosPicker planned to be implemented with Skip ?
I tried in playground and it seems not recognized.

[marcprux]

I also have a last question, is PhotosPicker planned to be implemented with Skip ?

As it happens, we just released a preview package called SkipKit that provides very rudimentary supports for activating the local media picker for the device. Please give it a try and let us know if it works for you. We expect to be making enhancements to this package based on user feedback.