Frosted Glass (iOS 7 Blur) Effect

Question

I am trying to apply a frosted glass effect in a UIImageView.

I tried to implement what I\'ve found in this question, but the result wasn\'t accepta

Answer 1

Solution for iOS 7 and 8, without using CoreImage or CoreGraphics at all:

- (void)addBlurToView:(UIView *)view {
    UIView *blurView = nil; 

    if([UIBlurEffect class]) { // iOS 8
        UIBlurEffect *blurEffect = [UIBlurEffect effectWithStyle:UIBlurEffectStyleExtraLight];
        blurView = [[UIVisualEffectView alloc] initWithEffect:blurEffect];
        blurView.frame = view.frame;

    } else { // workaround for iOS 7
        blurView = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:view.bounds];
    }

    [blurView setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];

    [view addSubview:blurView];
    [view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|[blurView]|" options:0 metrics:0 views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(blurView)]];
    [view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|[blurView]|" options:0 metrics:0 views:NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(blurView)]];
}

(assuming you're not targeting versions older than iOS 7; if you are, you'll have to test for the iOS version in the else block)

This solution applies to any view, not only images.