I would like to create a 1x1 UIImage dynamically based on a UIColor.
I suspect this can quickly be done with Quartz2d, and I'm poring over the documentation trying to get a grasp of the fundamentals. However, it looks like there are a lot of potential pitfalls: not identifying the numbers of bits and bytes per things correctly, not specifying the right flags, not releasing unused data, etc.
How can this be safely done with Quartz 2d (or another simpler way)?
You can use CGContextSetFillColorWithColor
and CGContextFillRect
for this:
Swift
extension UIImage {
class func image(with color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor)
CGContextFillRect(context, rect)
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
return image
}
}
Swift3
extension UIImage {
class func image(with color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
let rect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: 0, y:0), size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 1))
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
context.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
context.fill(rect)
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
return image!
}
}
Objective-C
+ (UIImage *)imageWithColor:(UIColor *)color {
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [color CGColor]);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image;
}