UILabel add GradientLayer [duplicate]

Answer 1

You will probably need to instead set the label on to top of a different UIView:

 UIView *labelBackground = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.label.frame];
 self.label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
 self.label.frame = self.label.bounds;

 CAGradientLayer *gradLayer=[CAGradientLayer layer];
 gradLayer.frame = labelBackground.layer.bounds;
 [gradLayer setColors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:(id)([UIColor redColor].CGColor), (id)([UIColor cyanColor].CGColor),nil]];
 gradLayer.endPoint=CGPointMake(1.0, 0.0);

 [labelBackground.layer addSublayer:gradLayer];

 [labelBackground addSubview:self.label];

 [self.view addSubview:labelBackground];