how to compress image programmatically - objective-c

Question

I am receiving images from xml feed they are very large in size how can i compress them before displaying them in table-cell.
my code is
int blogEntryIndex1 = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] -1];
imgstring=[[blogEntries objectAtIndex: blogEntryIndex1] objectForKey: #"image"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:imgstring];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *img = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
cell.imageView.image=[img autorelease];
please help me if you can.....

Answer 1

I've got this utility method that will scale an image :
- (UIImage*)imageWithImage:(UIImage*)image scaledToSize:(CGSize)newSize {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);
[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height)];
UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return newImage;
}
Use it like this :
int blogEntryIndex1 = [indexPath indexAtPosition: [indexPath length] -1];
imgstring=[[blogEntries objectAtIndex: blogEntryIndex1] objectForKey: #"image"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:imgstring];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *img = [self imageWithImage:[UIImage imageWithData:data] scaledToSize:CGSizeMake(20, 20)]; // Scale it to 20x20px
cell.imageView.image=[img autorelease];
NB I can't for the life of me remember where I got it from but it's served me well in the past

Answer 2

Simple to use:-
-(UIImage *)fireYourImageForCompression:(UIImage *)imgComing{
NSData *dataImgBefore = [[NSData alloc] initWithData:UIImageJPEGRepresentation((imgComing), 1.0)];//.1 BEFORE COMPRESSION
int imageSizeBefore = (int)dataImgBefore.length;
NSLog(#"SIZE OF IMAGE: %i ", imageSizeBefore);
NSLog(#"SIZE OF IMAGE in Kb: %i ", imageSizeBefore/1024);
NSData *dataCompressedImage = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(imgComing, .1); //.1 is low quality
int sizeCompressedImage = (int)dataCompressedImage.length;
NSLog(#"SIZE AFTER COMPRESSION OF IMAGE: %i ", sizeCompressedImage);
NSLog(#"SIZE AFTER COMPRESSION OF IMAGE in Kb: %i ", sizeCompressedImage/1024); //AFTER
//now change your image from compressed data
imgComing = [UIImage imageWithData:dataCompressedImage];
return imgComing;}