Fade a UIView in iOS using Gradient (Swift Extension)

FadeView.swift

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///
/// With this extension you can call .fadeView(style: ) on any view to create a fading effect.
/// Very useful when trying to fade a UIScrollView, UITableView or UICollectionView
/// This way also takes care of the "white or black" transparent gradient that happens as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24882361/ios-white-to-transparent-gradient-layer-is-gray
/// This solution is a swift implementation of the following stackoverflow question in Swift, adding more styles: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17774761/how-to-create-a-top-fade-effect-using-uiscrollview/25408833#25408833
///
extension UIView {
	
	enum UIViewFadeStyle {
		case bottom
		case top
		case left
		case right
		
		case vertical
		case horizontal
	}
	
	func fadeView(style: UIViewFadeStyle = .bottom, percentage: Double = 0.07) {
		let gradient = CAGradientLayer()
		gradient.frame = bounds
		gradient.colors = [UIColor.white.cgColor, UIColor.clear.cgColor]
		
		let startLocation = percentage
		let endLocation = 1 - percentage
		
		switch style {
		case .bottom:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: endLocation)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: 1)
		case .top:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: startLocation)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: 0.0)
		case .vertical:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: 0.0)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.5, y: 1.0)
			gradient.colors = [UIColor.clear.cgColor, UIColor.white.cgColor, UIColor.white.cgColor, UIColor.clear.cgColor]
			gradient.locations = [0.0, startLocation, endLocation, 1.0] as [NSNumber]
			
		case .left:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: startLocation, y: 0.5)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.5)
		case .right:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: endLocation, y: 0.5)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 1, y: 0.5)
		case .horizontal:
			gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.5)
			gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 1.0, y: 0.5)
			gradient.colors = [UIColor.clear.cgColor, UIColor.white.cgColor, UIColor.white.cgColor, UIColor.clear.cgColor]
			gradient.locations = [0.0, startLocation, endLocation, 1.0] as [NSNumber]
		}
		
		layer.mask = gradient
	}

}

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Can you please also license this code of yours? Thanks

Thank you for sharing, it really helps.
Can you please also license this code of yours? Thanks

Done! Feel free to use/modify this in whatever way you need :)

Thank you!