How can I color a UIImage in Swift?

Question

I have an image called arrowWhite. I want to colour this image to black.

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Answer 1

I have modified the extension found here: Github Gist, for Swift 3 which I have tested in the context of an extension for UIImage.

func tint(with color: UIColor) -> UIImage 
{
   UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.size)
   guard let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return self }

   // flip the image
   context.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
   context.translateBy(x: 0.0, y: -self.size.height)

   // multiply blend mode
   context.setBlendMode(.multiply)

   let rect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height)
   context.clip(to: rect, mask: self.cgImage!)
   color.setFill()
   context.fill(rect)

   // create UIImage
   guard let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() else { return self }
   UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

   return newImage
}