An update of @endash https://gist.github.com/endash/acda517225dc9f4bc9db for Swift 5. New `UnsafeMutableRawPointer` is a little tricky. See [here](https://www.raywenderlich.com/780-unsafe-swift-using-pointers-and-interacting-with-c). Photoshop style gradients in Core Graphics via use of CGShader (with thanks to @jernejstrasner, see his explanati…

GradientStruct.swift

import UIKit

func SineEaseInOutLinearAverage(x: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
    let easeInOutSine = ((cos(CGFloat.pi * x) - 1) / -2)
    return (easeInOutSine + x) / 2
}

func ShadingFunctionCreate(_ startColor: UIColor, _ endColor: UIColor, _ slopeFunction: @escaping (CGFloat) -> CGFloat) -> (UnsafePointer<CGFloat>, UnsafeMutablePointer<CGFloat>) -> Void {
    return { inData, outData in
        let q = slopeFunction(inData[0])
        
        let startComponents = startColor.cgColor.components!
        let endCOmponets = endColor.cgColor.components!
        
        outData[0] = startComponents[0] + (endCOmponets[0] - startComponents[0]) * q
        outData[1] = startComponents[1] + (endCOmponets[1] - startComponents[1]) * q
        outData[2] = startComponents[2] + (endCOmponets[2] - startComponents[2]) * q
        outData[3] = startComponents[3] + (endCOmponets[3] - startComponents[3]) * q
    }
}

func ShadingCallback(infoPointer: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?, inData: UnsafePointer<CGFloat>, outData: UnsafeMutablePointer<CGFloat>) -> Void {
    if var info = infoPointer?.load(as: Gradient.self) {
        info.shadingFunction(inData, outData)
    }
}

struct Gradient {
    let startColor : UIColor
    let endColor : UIColor
    let from : CGPoint
    let to : CGPoint
    let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()

    init(startColor: UIColor, endColor: UIColor, from: CGPoint, to: CGPoint) {
        self.startColor = startColor
        self.endColor = endColor
        self.from = from
        self.to = to
    }
    
    lazy var shadingFunction : (UnsafePointer<CGFloat>, UnsafeMutablePointer<CGFloat>) -> Void = {
        return ShadingFunctionCreate(self.startColor, self.endColor, SineEaseInOutLinearAverage)
    }()
    
    lazy var cgfunction : CGFunction? = {
        var callbacks = CGFunctionCallbacks(version: 0, evaluate: ShadingCallback, releaseInfo: nil)
        let byteCount = MemoryLayout<Gradient>.size
        let alignment = MemoryLayout<Gradient>.alignment
        let infoPointer = UnsafeMutableRawPointer.allocate(byteCount: byteCount, alignment: alignment)
        infoPointer.storeBytes(of: self, as: Gradient.self)
        defer{
            infoPointer.deallocate()
        }
        return CGFunction(info: infoPointer, domainDimension: 1, domain: [0, 1], rangeDimension: 4, range: [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1], callbacks: &callbacks)
    }()
    
    lazy var cgShading : CGShading! = CGShading(axialSpace: self.colorSpace, start: self.from, end: self.to, function: self.cgfunction!, extendStart: false, extendEnd: false)
}