How to compress image from UIImageView?

ios, ios5, ios6

Solution

Here is a piece of code as you need

CGFloat compression = 222.0f;
CGFloat maxCompression = 202.1f;
int maxFileSize = 160*165; //fill your size need

NSData *imageDat = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image.image, compression);

while ([imageDat length] > maxFileSize && compression > maxCompression)
{
    compression -= 0.1222;
    imageDat = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(decodedimage.image, compression);
}
NSLog(@"image compressed success");

[image setImage:[UIImage imageWithData:imageDat]];

Hope this Helps !!!

Problem

I am using image from UIImageView * image to upload to server. I use code like `NSData *imageToUpload = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image.image, 90);` but I would like to compress image to be less than 2MB. How to compress image from UIImageView ?

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