UIImage: Resize, then Crop

I needed the same thing - in my case, to pick the dimension that fits once scaled, and then crop each end to fit the rest to the width. (I'm working in landscape, so might not have noticed any deficiencies in portrait mode.) Here's my code - it's part of a categeory on UIImage. Target size in my code is always set to the full screen size of the device.

@implementation UIImage (Extras)

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Scale and crop image

- (UIImage*)imageByScalingAndCroppingForSize:(CGSize)targetSize
{
    UIImage *sourceImage = self;
    UIImage *newImage = nil;    
    CGSize imageSize = sourceImage.size;
    CGFloat width = imageSize.width;
    CGFloat height = imageSize.height;
    CGFloat targetWidth = targetSize.width;
    CGFloat targetHeight = targetSize.height;
    CGFloat scaleFactor = 0.0;
    CGFloat scaledWidth = targetWidth;
    CGFloat scaledHeight = targetHeight;
    CGPoint thumbnailPoint = CGPointMake(0.0,0.0);

    if (CGSizeEqualToSize(imageSize, targetSize) == NO) 
    {
        CGFloat widthFactor = targetWidth / width;
        CGFloat heightFactor = targetHeight / height;

        if (widthFactor > heightFactor) 
        {
            scaleFactor = widthFactor; // scale to fit height
        }
        else
        {
            scaleFactor = heightFactor; // scale to fit width
        }

        scaledWidth  = width * scaleFactor;
        scaledHeight = height * scaleFactor;

        // center the image
        if (widthFactor > heightFactor)
        {
            thumbnailPoint.y = (targetHeight - scaledHeight) * 0.5; 
        }
        else
        {
            if (widthFactor < heightFactor)
            {
                thumbnailPoint.x = (targetWidth - scaledWidth) * 0.5;
            }
        }
    }   

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(targetSize); // this will crop

    CGRect thumbnailRect = CGRectZero;
    thumbnailRect.origin = thumbnailPoint;
    thumbnailRect.size.width  = scaledWidth;
    thumbnailRect.size.height = scaledHeight;

    [sourceImage drawInRect:thumbnailRect];

    newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    if(newImage == nil)
    {
        NSLog(@"could not scale image");
    }

    //pop the context to get back to the default
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return newImage;
}

An older post contains code for a method to resize your UIImage. The relevant portion is as follows:

+ (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image 
               scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize;
{
   UIGraphicsBeginImageContext( newSize );
   [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0,0,newSize.width,newSize.height)];
   UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
   UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

   return newImage;
}

As far as cropping goes, I believe that if you alter the method to use a different size for the scaling than for the context, your resulting image should be clipped to the bounds of the context.

There's a great piece of code related to the resizing of images + several other operations. I came around this one when trying to figure ou how to resize images... http://vocaro.com/trevor/blog/2009/10/12/resize-a-uiimage-the-right-way/

I found that the Swift 3 posted by Evgenii Kanvets does not uniformly scale the image.

Here is my Swift 4 version of the function that does not squish the image:

static func resizedCroppedImage(image: UIImage, newSize:CGSize) -> UIImage? {

    // This function returns a newImage, based on image
    // - image is scaled uniformaly to fit into a rect of size newSize
    // - if the newSize rect is of a different aspect ratio from the source image
    //     the new image is cropped to be in the center of the source image
    //     (the excess source image is removed)

    var ratio: CGFloat = 0
    var delta: CGFloat = 0
    var drawRect = CGRect()

    if newSize.width > newSize.height {

        ratio = newSize.width / image.size.width
        delta = (ratio * image.size.height) - newSize.height
        drawRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: -delta / 2, width: newSize.width, height: newSize.height + delta)

    } else {

        ratio = newSize.height / image.size.height
        delta = (ratio * image.size.width) - newSize.width
        drawRect = CGRect(x: -delta / 2, y: 0, width: newSize.width + delta, height: newSize.height)

    }

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, true, 0.0)
    image.draw(in: drawRect)
    let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

    return newImage
}