How do I add a radial gradient to a UIView?

Question

I have a UIView which I want to have a radial gradient, and I\'m wondering how to go about doing this?

Answer 1

Here's Karlis answer in c# for Xamarin.iOS. Here I am specifying the colors directly but you can of course implement it the same way Karlis did.

public class RadialView : UIView
{
    public RadialView(CGRect rect) : base (rect)
    {
        this.BackgroundColor = UIColor.DarkGray;
    }

    public override void Draw(CGRect rect)
    {
        CGColor[] colorComponents = { UIColor.DarkGray.CGColor, UIColor.LightGray.CGColor };
        var locations = new nfloat[]{ 1, 0 }; 
        var radius = this.Bounds.Size.Height / 2;
        CGPoint center = new CGPoint(this.Bounds.Size.Width / 2, this.Bounds.Size.Height / 2);

        var context = UIGraphics.GetCurrentContext();
        context.SaveState();
        var colorSpace = CGColorSpace.CreateDeviceRGB();

        CGGradient gradient = new CGGradient(colorSpace, colorComponents, locations);
        context.DrawRadialGradient(gradient, center, 0, center, radius, CGGradientDrawingOptions.None);

        context.RestoreState();
        colorSpace.Dispose();
        gradient.Dispose();
    }
}