Easily use gradients in UIKit. SAMGradientView is a simple UIView wrapper around CGGradient.
SAMGradientView is tested on iOS 6 and requires ARC. Released under the MIT license.
Open up the included Xcode project for an example app and the tests.
// Initialize a gradient view
SAMGradientView *gradientView = [[SAMGradientView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20.0f, 20.0f, 280.0f, 280.0f)];
// Set the gradient colors
gradientView.gradientColors = @[[UIColor greenColor], [UIColor yellowColor]];
// Optionally set some locations
gradientView.gradientLocations = @[@0.8, @1.0];
// Optionally change the direction. The default is vertical.
gradientView.gradientDirection = SAMGradientViewDirectionHorizontal;
// Add some borders too if you want
gradientView.topBorderColor = [UIColor redColor];
gradientView.bottomBorderColor = [UIColor blueColor];
// Add it as a subview in all of its awesome
[self.view addSubview:gradientView];See the header for full documentation.
Simply add the files in the SAMGradientView.h and SAMGradientView.m to your project or add SAMGradientView to your Podfile if you're using CocoaPods.