I was under the impression that UIImage would support HEIC/HEIF files introduced in iOS 11. In my testing that does not appear to be the case though. If I do let image = UIImage(named: "test") which points to test.heic then image is nil. If I use an image literal then it crashes the app. Wondering if this is not implemented yet for now. Thanks.
While Zhao's answer works, it is fairly slow. The below is about 10-20 times faster. It still doesn't work in the simulator for some reason though so keep that in mind.
func convert(url: URL) -> UIImage? {
guard let source = CGImageSourceCreateWithURL(url as CFURL, nil) else { return nil }
guard let cgImage = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, 0, nil) else { return nil }
return UIImage(cgImage: cgImage)
}
This is kind of outlined on page 141 from the slides of a WWDC session but wasn't super clear to me before: https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2017/511tj33587vdhds/511/511_working_with_heif_and_hevc.pdf
Unfortunately I still haven't been able to figure out a way to use images in the xcassets folder so you'll either have to include the files outside of assets or pull from on the web. If anyone knows a way around this please post.