I want to get the color from a coordination on my screen and place it in a variable. I'm using Theos and I'm just messing around on my iOS 5 device for learning so please don't start the "stop wasting your time making tweaks for old iOS" as I've seen on all my posts :|
Try the below code:
// UIView+ColorOfPoint.h
@interface UIView (ColorOfPoint)
- (UIColor *) colorOfPoint:(CGPoint)point;
@end
// UIView+ColorOfPoint.m
#import "UIView+ColorOfPoint.h"
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
@implementation UIView (ColorOfPoint)
- (UIColor *) colorOfPoint:(CGPoint)point
{
unsigned char pixel[4] = {0};
CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(pixel, 1, 1, 8, 4, colorSpace, kCGBitmapAlphaInfoMask & kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -point.x, -point.y);
[self.layer renderInContext:context];
CGContextRelease(context);
CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
//NSLog(@"pixel: %d %d %d %d", pixel[0], pixel[1], pixel[2], pixel[3]);
UIColor *color = [UIColor colorWithRed:pixel[0]/255.0 green:pixel[1]/255.0 blue:pixel[2]/255.0 alpha:pixel[3]/255.0];
return color;
}
You can find the files here: https://github.com/ivanzoid/ikit/tree/master/UIView%2BColorOfPoint
Also, check the answers here for more info: How to get the color of a pixel in an UIView?