Blur screen with iOS 7's snapshot API

Question

I believe the NDA is down, so I can ask this question. I have a UIView subclass:

BlurView *blurredView = ((BlurView *)[self.view snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:NO]);
blurredView.frame = self.view.frame;
[self.view addSubview:blurredView];

It does its job so far in capturing the screen, but now I want to blur that view. How exactly do I go about this? From what I've read I need to capture the current contents of the view (context?!) and convert it to CIImage (no?) and then apply a CIGaussianBlur to it and draw it back on the view.

How exactly do I do that?

P.S. The view is not animated, so it should be OK performance wise.

EDIT: Here is what I have so far. The problem is that I can't capture the snapshot to a UIImage, I get a black screen. But if I add the view as a subview directly, I can see the snapshot is there.

// Snapshot
UIView *view = [self.view snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:NO];

// Convert to UIImage
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.bounds.size, view.opaque, 0.0);
[view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

// Apply the UIImage to a UIImageView
BlurView *blurredView = [[BlurView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 500, 500)];
[self.view addSubview:blurredView];
blurredView.imageView.image = img;

// Black screen -.-

BlurView.m:

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];

    if (self) {
        // Initialization code
        self.imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
        self.imageView.frame = CGRectMake(20, 20, 200, 200);
        [self addSubview:self.imageView];
    }
    return self;
}

Answer 1

Sample Code from WWDC ios_uiimageeffects

There is a UIImage category named UIImage+ImageEffects

Here is its API:

- (UIImage *)applyLightEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyExtraLightEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyDarkEffect;
- (UIImage *)applyTintEffectWithColor:(UIColor *)tintColor;

- (UIImage *)applyBlurWithRadius:(CGFloat)blurRadius 
                       tintColor:(UIColor *)tintColor 
           saturationDeltaFactor:(CGFloat)saturationDeltaFactor 
                       maskImage:(UIImage *)maskImage;

For legal reason I can't show the implementation here, there is a demo project in it. should be pretty easy to get start with.