Fading out any content which approaches edges of UIScollView

Question

As the title says, I am trying to give to some UIImageViews a fading out effect as they get closer and closer to any of the four edges of my UIScrollView. Since the user can dra

Answer 1

Swift version of Nate answer, but only for top and bottom:

        let innerColor = UIColor(white: 1.0, alpha: 0.0).CGColor
        let outerColor = UIColor(white: 1.0, alpha: 1.0).CGColor;

        // define a vertical gradient (up/bottom edges)
        let colors = [outerColor, innerColor,innerColor,outerColor]
        let locations = [0.0, 0.15,0.85,1.0]

        var vMaskLayer : CAGradientLayer = CAGradientLayer()// layer];
        // without specifying startPoint and endPoint, we get a vertical gradient
        vMaskLayer.opacity = 0.7
        vMaskLayer.colors = colors;
        vMaskLayer.locations = locations;
        vMaskLayer.bounds = self.scrollView.bounds;
        vMaskLayer.anchorPoint = CGPointZero;

        // you must add the mask to the root view, not the scrollView, otherwise
        //  the masks will move as the user scrolls!
        self.view.layer.addSublayer(vMaskLayer)