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`UIVisualEffectView` with support for `UIBlurEffect` blur w/ custom blur radius/intensity, and custom animatable filters

VisualEffectBlurView

A subclass of UIVisualEffectView that lets you set a custom blur radius + intensity, or set CALayer.filter using CAFilter (which is obfuscated since it's private API).

Animation is supported for changing the blur radius (or blur percent intensity) for a given UIBlurEffect.Style, and also for custom effects via CAFilter (please see gif below for demo).

Support for animatable CAColorMatrix (i.e. colorMatrix filter). configurable via ColorTransform or ColorMatrixRGBA.
Support for variableBlur, w/ animatable blur radius.
Other animatable filters: colorMonochrome, colorSaturate, colorBrightness, colorContrast, colorHueRotate, compressLuminance, gaussianBlur, luminanceCurveMap, vibrantDark, vibrantLight, etc (see LayerFilterType for full list of filters).

Demo Gifs

Experiment02ViewController.swift

VisualEffectBlurTestViewController.swift

VisualEffectViewExperiment01ViewController.swift

RNIVisualEffectCustomFilterViewTest01Screen.tsx

Experiment01ViewController.swift

VisualEffectCustomFilterViewTest02Controller.swift

VisualEffectCustomFilterViewTest02Screen.tsx

Acknowledgements

very special thanks to: junzhengca, brentvatne, expo, EvanBacon, corasan, lauridskern, ronintechnologies, gerzonc, and edencakir for becoming a monthly sponsor, and thank you fobos531 for being a one time sponsor 🥺 (if you have the means to do so, please considering sponsoring here)

This little library powers react-native-ios-visual-effect-view under the hood ✨

Installation

Cocoapods

VisualEffectBlurView is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'VisualEffectBlurView'

Swift Package Manager (SPM)

Method #1: Via Xcode GUI:

File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency
Add https://github.com/dominicstop/VisualEffectBlurView.git

Method #2: Via Package.swift:

Open your project's Package.swift file.
Update dependencies in Package.swift, and add the following:

dependencies: [
  .package(url: "https://github.com/dominicstop/VisualEffectBlurView.git",
  .upToNextMajor(from: "1.0.0"))
]

Basic Usage

UIKit

🔗 Full Example

// ✨ Code omitted for brevity

import UIKit
import VisualEffectBlurView;

class BasicUsage01: UIViewController {

  override func viewDidLoad() {
  	
    let blurView = VisualEffectBlurView(blurEffectStyle: .dark);
    blurView.blurRadius = 15;

    blurView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false;
    self.view.addSubview(blurView);
    
    NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
      blurView.topAnchor.constraint(
        equalTo: self.view.topAnchor
      ),
      blurView.bottomAnchor.constraint(
        equalTo: self.view.bottomAnchor
      ),
      blurView.leadingAnchor.constraint(
        equalTo: self.view.leadingAnchor
      ),
      blurView.trailingAnchor.constraint(
        equalTo: self.view.trailingAnchor
      ),
    ]);
  };
};

SwiftUI

🔗 Full Example

import SwiftUI
import VisualEffectBlurView

struct SwiftUIBasicUsage01: View {

  var body: some View {
    Text("🖼️\n🌆\n🌄")
      .font(.system(size: 128))
      .frame(
        maxWidth: .infinity,
        maxHeight: .infinity
      )
      .overlay(self.overlay, alignment: .center)
  }
  
  var overlay: some View {
    VisualEffectBlur(
      blurEffectStyle: .constant(.regular),
      blurRadius: .constant(nil)
    )
  };
}

Documentation

The documentation for this library is currently not available. In the meantime, please browse through the views, and examples directory (or look through the impl. of RN wrapper for this library).

Misc and Contact

🐤 Twitter/X: @GoDominic
💌 Email: dominicgo@dominicgo.dev
🌐 Website: dominicgo.dev

Description

Swift Tools 5.7.0

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Dependencies

DGSwiftUtilities0.46.4

Last updated: Sat Oct 25 2025 05:57:55 GMT-0900 (Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time)