Extracting rgb from UIColor [duplicate]

The code sample you provided should work.

Try this:

UIColor uicolor = [[UIColor greenColor] retain];
CGColorRef color = [uicolor CGColor];

int numComponents = CGColorGetNumberOfComponents(color);

if (numComponents == 4)
{
  const CGFloat *components = CGColorGetComponents(color);
  CGFloat red = components[0];
  CGFloat green = components[1];
  CGFloat blue = components[2];
  CGFloat alpha = components[3];
}

[uicolor release];