Save and Retrieve UIView as NSData in Swift

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I am indeting to save a uiview in one view and call it in another view (to save it as PDF)

Anyone knows how can I save and retrieve UIView as NSData in Swift?

"uiview nsdata swift" in Google gives thousands of results... Searching in SO's search box will also give you good answers to this already answered question. — Eric Aya, May 10 '16 at 09:37
Possible duplicate of [Can UIView be copied?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4425939/can-uiview-be-copied) — Alessandro Ornano, May 10 '16 at 12:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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According to this post, you could try this :

let yourViewToData = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedDataWithRootObject(yourView)
if let yourViewFromData = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithData(yourViewToData) as? UIView {
  // Do what you want with your view
}

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Save and Retrieve UIView as NSData in Swift

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