Extract RGB Values From UIColor

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You can convert UIColor to CIColor and then extract the color components from it as follow:

Update: Xcode 8.3.2 • Swift 3.1

extension UIColor {
    var coreImageColor: CIColor {
        return CIColor(color: self)
    }
    var components: (red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha: CGFloat) {
        let coreImageColor = self.coreImageColor
        return (coreImageColor.red, coreImageColor.green, coreImageColor.blue, coreImageColor.alpha)
    }
}

usage:

let myColor = UIColor(red: 0.5, green: 1, blue: 0.25, alpha: 0.5)
let myCIColor = myColor.coreImageColor
let greencomponent = myColor.components.green
let myColorComponents = myColor.components
print(myColorComponents.red)   // 0.5
print(myColorComponents.green) // 1.0
print(myColorComponents.blue)  // 0.25
print(myColorComponents.alpha) // 0.5

You can also use the function getRed() and create an extension to extract the components as follow but the result would be optional:

extension UIColor {
    typealias RGBA = (red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha: CGFloat)
    var rgba: RGBA? {
        var (r, g, b, a): RGBA = (0, 0, 0, 0)
        return getRed(&r, green: &g, blue: &b, alpha: &a) ? (r,g,b,a) : nil
    }
    var r: CGFloat? {
        var red: CGFloat = .zero
        return getRed(&red, green: nil, blue: nil, alpha: nil) ? red : nil
    }
    var g: CGFloat? {
        var green: CGFloat = .zero
        return getRed(nil, green: &green, blue: nil, alpha: nil) ? green : nil
    }
    var b: CGFloat? {
        var blue: CGFloat = .zero
        return getRed(nil, green: nil, blue: &blue, alpha: nil) ? blue : nil
    }
    var a: CGFloat? {
        var alpha: CGFloat = .zero
        return getRed(nil, green: nil, blue: nil, alpha: &alpha) ? alpha : nil
    }
}

Usage

let color = UIColor(red: 0.5, green: 1, blue: 0.25, alpha: 0.5)
if let components = color.rgba {
    print(components.red)   // 0.5
    print(components.green) // 1.0
    print(components.blue)  // 0.25
    print(components.alpha) // 0.5
}

print(color.r ?? "nil")   // 0.5
print(color.g ?? "nil") // 1.0
print(color.b ?? "nil")  // 0.25
print(color.a ?? "nil") // 0.5

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