How can I color a UIImage in Swift?

Question

I have an image called arrowWhite. I want to colour this image to black.

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Answer 1

Swift 4 and 5

extension UIImageView {
  func setImageColor(color: UIColor) {
    let templateImage = self.image?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
    self.image = templateImage
    self.tintColor = color
  }
}

Call like this:

let imageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "your_image_name"))
imageView.setImageColor(color: UIColor.purple)

Alternativ For Swift 3, 4 or 5

extension UIImage {

    func maskWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage? {
        let maskImage = cgImage!

        let width = size.width
        let height = size.height
        let bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height)

        let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
        let bitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(rawValue: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue)
        let context = CGContext(data: nil, width: Int(width), height: Int(height), bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0, space: colorSpace, bitmapInfo: bitmapInfo.rawValue)!

        context.clip(to: bounds, mask: maskImage)
        context.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
        context.fill(bounds)

        if let cgImage = context.makeImage() {
            let coloredImage = UIImage(cgImage: cgImage)
            return coloredImage
        } else {
            return nil
        }
    }

}

For Swift 2.3

extension UIImage {
func maskWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage? {

    let maskImage = self.CGImage
    let width = self.size.width
    let height = self.size.height
    let bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height)

    let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
    let bitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(rawValue: CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedLast.rawValue)
    let bitmapContext = CGBitmapContextCreate(nil, Int(width), Int(height), 8, 0, colorSpace, bitmapInfo.rawValue) //needs rawValue of bitmapInfo

    CGContextClipToMask(bitmapContext, bounds, maskImage)
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(bitmapContext, color.CGColor)
    CGContextFillRect(bitmapContext, bounds)

    //is it nil?
    if let cImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(bitmapContext) {
        let coloredImage = UIImage(CGImage: cImage)

        return coloredImage

    } else {
        return nil
    } 
 }
}

Call like this:

let image = UIImage(named: "your_image_name")
testImage.image =  image?.maskWithColor(color: UIColor.blue)

Answer 2

Since I found Darko's answer very helpful in colorizing custom pins for mapView annotations, but had to do some conversions for Swift 3, thought I'd share the updated code along with my recommendation for his answer:

extension UIImage {
    func maskWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {

        var maskImage = self.CGImage
        let width = self.size.width
        let height = self.size.height
        let bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height)

        let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
        let bitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(rawValue: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue)
        let bitmapContext = CGContext(data: nil, width: Int(width), height: Int(height), bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0, space: colorSpace, bitmapInfo: bitmapInfo.rawValue)

        bitmapContext!.clip(to: bounds, mask: maskImage!)
        bitmapContext!.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
        bitmapContext!.fill(bounds)

        let cImage = bitmapContext!.makeImage()
        let coloredImage = UIImage(CGImage: cImage)

        return coloredImage!
    }
}