iOS Library For Automatically Generating A Color Scheme From An Image Like iTunes 11

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One of the interesting features in iTunes 11 is how the color scheme changes when looking at the details for an album based on that album cover.

There’s been a lot of talk about how exactly to do this, and here’s a library you can use in your iOS apps to easily gather a color scheme based on an image. Luis Espinoza has put together a library based on these discussions called LEColorPicker automatically generates a color scheme containing 3 colors.

Here’s an image from the readme showing the library at work on a couple of images:

After processing an image you can easily access the background, primary and secondary colors:

#import "LEColorPicker.h"
…
[LEColorPicker pickColorFromImage:image onComplete:^(NSDictionary *colorsPickedDictionary) {
_outputView.backgroundColor = [colorsPickedDictionary objectForKey:@"BackgroundColor"];
_titleTextField.textColor = [colorsPickedDictionary objectForKey:@"PrimaryTextColor"];
_bodyTextField.textColor = [colorsPickedDictionary objectForKey:@"SecondaryTextColor"];
}];
…

You can find LEColorPicker on Github here.

You can find the original question/answer thread explaining the algorithm over at StackOverflow.

Not completely identical to iTunes 11 color picking, but still does a great job.