Capture view contents into an UIImage object

By combining UIGraphicsBeginImageContext() and -renderInContext in CALayer, you can draw contents into a image (UIImage) object. It is like screen capture.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(view.frame.size);
[view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

CGContextTranslateCTM() modifies the x- and y- coordinates (otherwise it starts from (0,0)). By using CGContextTranslateCTM(), you can change the start capturing point so that it can capture limited area in the UIScrollView content.

CGSize pageSize = CGSizeMake(320, 480);
int currentPage = 2;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(pageSize);
CGContextRef resizedContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextTranslateCTM(resizedContext, 320 * currentPage, 0);
[scrollView.layer renderInContext:resizedContext];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

Ref:
Capture UIImage with offset into UIScrollView

Set border around the view

There is no border property in UIView…. classes but we can access CALayer class to set border. Since layer property is defined in the UIView class, all of UIView inherited class can use this property to set border. It needs to have #import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> to access CALayer.

view.layer.borderWidth = 1;
view.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];