Create new UIImage by adding shadow to existing UIImage

Question

I\'ve taken a look at this question: UIImage Shadow Trouble

But the accepted answer didn\'t work for me.

What I\'m trying to do is take a UIImage and add a s

Answer 1

GK100's answer in Swift 2 / iOS9

func addShadow(blurSize: CGFloat = 6.0) -> UIImage {

    let data : UnsafeMutablePointer = nil
    let colorSpace:CGColorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()!
    let bitmapInfo : CGBitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(rawValue: CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedLast.rawValue)

    let myColorValues:[CGFloat] = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.8]
    let myColor = CGColorCreate(colorSpace, myColorValues)

    let shadowContext : CGContextRef = CGBitmapContextCreate(data, Int(self.size.width + blurSize), Int(self.size.height + blurSize), CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(self.CGImage), 0, colorSpace, bitmapInfo.rawValue)!

    CGContextSetShadowWithColor(shadowContext, CGSize(width: blurSize/2,height: -blurSize/2),  blurSize, myColor)
    CGContextDrawImage(shadowContext, CGRect(x: 0, y: blurSize, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height), self.CGImage)

    let shadowedCGImage : CGImageRef = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(shadowContext)!
    let shadowedImage : UIImage = UIImage(CGImage: shadowedCGImage)

    return shadowedImage
}