How can I increase the size of a CGRect by a certain percent value?

Question

How can I increase the size of a CGRect by a certain percent value? Should I use some form of CGRectInset to do it?

Example:

Assume I have a CGRect:

Answer 1

Swift 4 extension inspired by several of the answers here with simplified calculations:

extension CGRect {
    func scaleLinear(amount: Double) -> CGRect {
        guard amount != 1.0, amount > 0.0 else { return self }
        let ratio = ((1.0 - amount) / 2.0).cgFloat
        return insetBy(dx: width * ratio, dy: height * ratio)
    }

    func scaleArea(amount: Double) -> CGRect {
        return scaleLinear(percent: sqrt(amount))
    }

    func scaleLinear(percent: Double) -> CGRect {
        return scaleLinear(amount: percent / 100)
    }

    func scaleArea(percent: Double) -> CGRect {
        return scaleArea(amount: percent / 100)
    }
}

Usage is simply:

rect.scaleLinear(percent: 120.0)  OR (amount: 1.2)
rect.scaleArea(percent: 120.0)  OR (amount: 1.2)

If you are interested in trying my testing methods:

/// Testing
extension CGRect {
    var area: CGFloat { return width * height }
    var center: CGPoint { return CGPoint(x: origin.x + width/2, y: origin.y + height/2)
    }

    func compare(_ r: CGRect) {
        let centered = center.x == r.center.x && center.y == r.center.y
        print("linear = \(r.width / width), area = \(r.area / area) centered \(centered)")
    }

    static func ScaleTest() {
        let rect = CGRect(x: 17, y: 24, width: 200, height: 100)
        let percent = 122.6
        rect.compare(rect.scaleLinear(percent: percent))
        rect.compare(rect.scaleArea(percent: percent))
    }
}