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I have been trying unsuccessfully to fill a shape with a gradient. Using CAGradientLayer and CAShapeLayer on the UIBezierPath, but it seems to be for rectangles, not polygons.

The matter is further complicated as I am looking to fill from the edge of the shape and into its central point (startPoint and endPoint?), not from one edge to the other.

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
        let triangle = Triangle(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.bounds.width, height: view.bounds.height))
        triangle.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
        view.addSubview(triangle)
        
    }
}


class Triangle: UIView {
    
    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {        
        
        func fromLocation(angle: CGFloat, radius: CGFloat, offset: CGPoint) -> CGPoint {
            return CGPoint(x: radius * cos(angle) + offset.x, y: radius * sin(angle) + offset.y)
            
        }
        

        
        func drawTriangle() -> () {
            
                let degreeChange = arc4random() % 10 + 3
                let path = UIBezierPath()
                
                
                var angleChange: CGFloat = -CGFloat(Double.pi / 2.0)
                let angleIncrement = CGFloat(Double.pi * 2.0 / 3)
                let radius = rect.width / 2.0
                
                var center = CGPoint(x: rect.width / 2, y: rect.height / 2)
                


                let triangleGradient = CAGradientLayer()
                triangleGradient.frame = path.bounds
                
                
                let cgGreenTrans = UIColor(red: 0.0/255.0, green: 255.0/255.0, blue: 0.0/255.0, alpha: 0.2).cgColor
                
                triangleGradient.colors = [UIColor.red.cgColor, cgGreenTrans]
            
                
                //gradient fill
                let shapeMask = CAShapeLayer()
                shapeMask.path = path.cgPath
                
                triangleGradient.mask = shapeMask
                layer.addSublayer(shapeMask)
                
                layer.addSublayer(triangleGradient)
                
                
                path.move(to: fromLocation(angle: angleChange, radius: radius, offset: center))
                
                
                
                for _ in 1...degreeChange - 1 {
                    
                    angleChange += angleIncrement
                    path.addLine(to: fromLocation(angle: angleChange, radius: radius, offset: center))
                    
                    //print out elements ?
                    print(path.accessibilityElementCount())
                }
                
                path.close()
                path.fill()
                center = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.0)
        }
        drawTriangle()
        
    }
    
}

I also notice that no elements are printed into the lldb?

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As this question is about various graphics APIs on iOS, rather than the Swift language itself, you might have more luck asking it in the Cocoa Touch topic area of DevForums.

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