Hello! :wave: How would you display images as UIImage in iosMain using composeResources library? I’v...

# compose-ios

[Vytenis]

Hello! 👋 How would you display images as UIImage in iosMain using composeResources library? I’ve tried using this, but with no luck, I always get image null
val image = UIImage.imageNamed("image_name")
in my build.gradle

compose.resources {
     customDirectory(
         sourceSetName = "iosMain",
         directoryProvider = provider { layout.projectDirectory.dir("composeResources") }
     )
 }

(Obviously I've created composeResources folder with the same structure as composeApp)
But I guess it's only for having custom resources in compose?
But what about if I want to display UIimage from my iosMain code?

[sigmadelta]

I don't think you'll be able to address the resources directly from the iOS part. Top of my head I would likely read out the imageresource into a byte array, convert the KotlinByteArray to NSData and then visualize this with a UIImage.

[François]

UIImage.imageNamed("image_name") is loading only asset stored inside the xcasset folder.

[Vytenis]

Tried to store the .png file there as well, but got null too.

[François]

The solution of Bojan is working, you need to do some conversion.