High Quality Scaling of UIImage

Swift extension:

extension UIImage{

        // returns a scaled version of the image
        func imageScaledToSize(size : CGSize, isOpaque : Bool) -> UIImage{

            // begin a context of the desired size
            UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, isOpaque, 0.0)

            // draw image in the rect with zero origin and size of the context
            let imageRect = CGRect(origin: CGPointZero, size: size)
            self.drawInRect(imageRect)

            // get the scaled image, close the context and return the image
            let scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
            UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

            return scaledImage
       }
}

Example:

aUIImageView.image = aUIImage.imageScaledToSize(aUIImageView.bounds.size, isOpaque : false)

Set isOpaque to true if the image has no alpha: drawing will have better performance.