UIImage average color

UIImage+AverageColor

@implementation UIImage (AverageColor)
 
- (UIColor *)averageColor {
 
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    unsigned char rgba[4];
    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(rgba, 1, 1, 8, 4, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast | kCGBitmapByteOrder32Big);
 
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1), self.CGImage);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
    CGContextRelease(context);  
 
    if(rgba[3] > 0) {
        CGFloat alpha = ((CGFloat)rgba[3])/255.0;
        CGFloat multiplier = alpha/255.0;
        return [UIColor colorWithRed:((CGFloat)rgba[0])*multiplier
                               green:((CGFloat)rgba[1])*multiplier
                                blue:((CGFloat)rgba[2])*multiplier
                               alpha:alpha];
    }
    else {
        return [UIColor colorWithRed:((CGFloat)rgba[0])/255.0
                               green:((CGFloat)rgba[1])/255.0
                                blue:((CGFloat)rgba[2])/255.0
                               alpha:((CGFloat)rgba[3])/255.0];
    }
}
 
@end

UIImageAverageColor

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>;
@interface UIImage (AverageColor)
- (UIColor *)averageColor;
@end


#import "UIImage+AverageColor.h"
@implementation UIImage (AverageColor)
 
- (UIColor *)averageColor {
 
    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    unsigned char rgba[4];
    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(rgba, 1, 1, 8, 4, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast | kCGBitmapByteOrder32Big);
 
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1), self.CGImage);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);
    CGContextRelease(context);  
 
    if(rgba[3] &gt; 0) {
        CGFloat alpha = ((CGFloat)rgba[3])/255.0;
        CGFloat multiplier = alpha/255.0;
        return [UIColor colorWithRed:((CGFloat)rgba[0])*multiplier
                               green:((CGFloat)rgba[1])*multiplier
                                blue:((CGFloat)rgba[2])*multiplier
                               alpha:alpha];
    }
    else {
        return [UIColor colorWithRed:((CGFloat)rgba[0])/255.0
                               green:((CGFloat)rgba[1])/255.0
                                blue:((CGFloat)rgba[2])/255.0
                               alpha:((CGFloat)rgba[3])/255.0];
    }
}
 
@end

if (rgba[3] & gt; 0)
this generates errors under Xcode 6.3
Use of undeclared identifier 'gt'
Expected ';' after expression

@nissaba that's because the greater than symbol was encoded. Should read:

    if(rgba[3] > 0) {

I'm having a memory leak with this line:
CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1), self.CGImage);

I would think that CGContextRelease would take care of it, but it doesn't so each time I call the method I add 30MB+ to my allocation. That lasts about 6 calls before iOS kills me.