UIView border with fade or blur effect

Question

I\'m looking for method to add gradually fading or maybe blured border (I don\'t exactly know how to name this effect) to arbitrary UIView. I don\'t need animated effect, I

Answer 1

Here's iKiR and Mazyod's answer, translated to Xamarin.iOS (Monotouch). Note that there's no need to draw rectangles before and after the gradient if you just pass the right flags to the the DrawLinearGradient method:

var vl = myView.Layer;
var l = new CALayer ();
l.Frame = new RectangleF(vl.Frame.Width/2, vl.Frame.Height/2,
            vl.Frame.Width, vl.Frame.Height) ;
var cs = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB ();
var g = new CGBitmapContext (null, 
            (int) vl.Bounds.Size.Width, (int)vl.Bounds.Size.Height, 
            8, 0, cs, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedLast);
var colors = new CGColor[] { UIColor.FromWhiteAlpha(1, 0).CGColor, 
            UIColor.FromWhiteAlpha(1, 1f).CGColor };
var grad = new CGGradient (cs, colors, new float[] { 0f, 1f });
int gradH = 20, gradHPos = 0;
g.DrawLinearGradient (grad, 
            new PointF (l.Frame.Width / 2, gradHPos), new PointF (l.Frame.Width / 2, gradHPos + gradH), 
            CGGradientDrawingOptions.DrawsBeforeStartLocation | CGGradientDrawingOptions.DrawsAfterEndLocation);
grad.Dispose ();

l.Contents = g.ToImage ();
g.Dispose ();

vl.Mask = l;
vl.MasksToBounds = true;