Generate a random color (UIColor) in Objective-C

color.m

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CGFloat hue = ( arc4random() % 256 / 256.0 );  //  0.0 to 1.0
CGFloat saturation = ( arc4random() % 128 / 256.0 ) + 0.5;  //  0.5 to 1.0, away from white
CGFloat brightness = ( arc4random() % 128 / 256.0 ) + 0.5;  //  0.5 to 1.0, away from black
UIColor *color = [UIColor colorWithHue:hue saturation:saturation brightness:brightness alpha:1];

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Thank you for the snippet @kylefox ... I think that on line #26 one should divide by 255 .. mod 256 yields a number between 0 and 255 otherwise you'll never get to 1.0.

Mine was a bit more long but it work

func changeBackgroundColor() {
// this has been taken from stackoverflow.com/questions/27390234/changing-main-view-controller-background-color-from-value-in-nsuserdefaults
//which gave me idea on how the background color works
// initialise defaults
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
// Start color off with a default value
var color = UIColor.grayColor()
var backcolor = 0

    if let backColor = defaults.objectForKey("backColor") as? String {
        // accessing the variable
        switch backColor {
        case "1": color = UIColor.redColor()
        case "2": color = UIColor.greenColor()
        case "3": color = UIColor.cyanColor()
        case "4": color = UIColor.yellowColor()
        case "5": color = UIColor.grayColor()
        case "6": color = UIColor.orangeColor()
        default: break




        }
    }

    //this has been lifted from :
    //stackoverflow.com/questions/24007129/how-does-one-generate-a-random-number-in-apples-swift-language
    //to give ideas on how random numbers work
    // and also cast from Int to String via
    //  stackoverflow.com/questions/24161336/convert-int-to-string-in-swift
    //to give ideas on how random numbers work


    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject( "\(String (Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(6)+1))))", forKey: "backColor") //saving a random number and calling it backcolor
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().synchronize() //
    view.backgroundColor = color

}

Beauty!

Thanks !

Here is the snippet 
CGFloat redLevel    = rand() / (float) RAND_MAX;
CGFloat greenLevel  = rand() / (float) RAND_MAX;
CGFloat blueLevel   = rand() / (float) RAND_MAX;

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed: redLevel
                                            green: greenLevel
                                             blue: blueLevel
                                            alpha: 1.0];

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Swift:

    let hue = CGFloat(Double(arc4random() % 256) / 256.0) // 0.0 to 1.0
    let saturation = CGFloat(Double(arc4random() % 128) / 266.0 + 0.5) // 0.5 to 1.0, away from white
    let brightness = CGFloat(Double(arc4random() % 128) / 256.0 + 0.5) // 0.5 to 1.0, away from black
    return UIColor(hue: hue, saturation: saturation, brightness: brightness, alpha: 1.0)

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I have a color code like "15233421". How can I consider alpha value while using any of the solution?

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Thank you so much for this share. It helps people like me who are new to iOS programming in ObjC

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