How to replicate the blurred text in Notification Center (iOS 8)

Question

I am playing with TodayExtension in iOS 8 and I wondered how to apply that blur effect to the Text or to buttons. I already figured out that it has something to do with UIVi

Answer 1

Updated Answer for iOS 10

In iOS 10, you can use widgetPrimaryVibrancyEffect and widgetSecondaryVibrancyEffect to automatically return a UIVibrancyEffect object.

Check out the documentation here and here.

Answer for iOS 9

Use this code to apply a vibrancy effect to your whole widget:

UIVisualEffectView *effectView = [[UIVisualEffectView alloc] initWithEffect:[UIVibrancyEffect notificationCenterVibrancyEffect]];
effectView.frame = self.view.bounds
effectView.autoresizingMask = self.view.autoresizingMask;

__strong UIView *oldView = self.view;

self.view = effectView;

[effectView.contentView addSubview:oldView];

self.view.tintColor = [UIColor clearColor];