Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Creating Dynamic Colors in SwiftUI

Jesse Squires:

Beginning with the introduction of dark mode in iOS 13, colors in iOS are now (optionally) dynamic. You can provide light and dark variants for all colors in your app. However, I was surprised to find that SwiftUI — which also made its first appearance on the platform in iOS 13 — still does not provide any API for creating dynamic colors.

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Of course, you can use Asset Catalogs to define dynamic colors and reference them in SwiftUI, and Xcode 15 makes that easier! But if you need to programmatically initialize dynamic colors in SwiftUI, you are out of luck due to this glaring omission. Instead, you must resort to UIKit and AppKit. So, here’s a helpful extension that accommodates the missing API for all platforms.

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