IOS Flaten a UIImageView in a UIVIew into a single UIView

Question

I have a UIView that has another UIView and a UIImageView inside of it. I want to flaten the UIImage onto the UIView. If it helps you can think of the layout like this:
-UIView
---UIImageView
---UIView

How can I capture the whole UIView and save it as a single image?

Answer 1

You can use this to save your views as a single image.

-(UIImage *)visibleImage
{
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(yourview.frame.size, YES, [UIScreen mainScreen].scale);
    CGContextTranslateCTM(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(), CGRectGetMinX(yourview.frame) , CGRectGetMinY(yourview.frame));

    [yourview.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
    UIImage *img_FinalVisible  = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return img_FinalVisible;
}