Generate Colored Icons From Image Masks In Objective-C

Ole Zorn forked and improved on a nifty method created by Marco Arment of Instapaper fame. It takes a UIImage and treats it as a mask to fill it’s opaque parts with a solid color. Marco uses it to generate arbitrarily colored icons on the fly. Ole took his original idea and simplified it.

This is also a great example of how gists work. A gist is snippet of code posted online (publically or privately) similar to Pastie. The killer feature, though, is that you have a full history of changes to that snippet and can even fork a snippet keeping the full history of it’s lineage. If you want to see Marco’s original method before Ole improved it, just click the oldest revision in the right sidebar.

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