---
title: ALAssetRepresentation
framework: assetslibrary
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation
---

# ALAssetRepresentation

An ALAssetRepresentation object encapsulates one of the representations of a given ALAsset object.

## Declaration

```occ
@interface ALAssetRepresentation : NSObject
```

## Overview

Overview important: The Assets Library framework is deprecated as of iOS 9.0. Instead, use the Photos framework instead, which in iOS 8.0 and later provides more features and better performance for working with a user’s photo library. For more information, see Photos. In the Photos framework, the PHAsset and PHImageManager classes provide functionality for fetching an asset’s image or video data. A given asset in the library may have more than one representation. For example, if a camera provides RAW and JPEG versions of an image, the resulting asset will have two representations—one for the RAW file and one for the JPEG file.

## Topics

### Instance Methods

- [CGImageWithOptions:](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/cgimagewithoptions:.md)
- [UTI](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/uti.md)
- [dimensions](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/dimensions.md)
- [filename](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/filename.md)
- [fullResolutionImage](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/fullresolutionimage.md)
- [fullScreenImage](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/fullscreenimage.md)
- [getBytes:fromOffset:length:error:](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/getbytes:fromoffset:length:error:.md)
- [metadata](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/metadata.md)
- [orientation](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/orientation.md)
- [scale](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/scale.md)
- [size](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/size.md)
- [url](assetslibrary/alassetrepresentation/url.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

## See Also

### Classes

- [ALAsset](assetslibrary/alasset.md)
- [ALAssetsFilter](assetslibrary/alassetsfilter.md)
- [ALAssetsGroup](assetslibrary/alassetsgroup.md)
- [ALAssetsLibrary](assetslibrary/alassetslibrary.md)