Creating an empty UIImage of a given size and color programmatically
February 9, 2013 in iOS Snippets
+ (UIImage *)imageWithColor:(UIColor *)color andSize:(CGSize)size
{
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, size.width, size.height);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [color CGColor]);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image;
}