UIColor : Quick tips and color your Life!

Before start, we need to create an extension, it’s simple. Create a new file with this:

extension UIColor {
}

UIColor with Int for RGB color

Now we can create an initializer for UIColor and to be able to handle Int value

extension UIColor {
     convenience init(red: Int, green: Int, blue: Int) {
        assert(red >= 0 && red <= 255, "Invalid red")
        assert(green >= 0 && green <= 255, "Invalid green")
        assert(blue >= 0 && blue <= 255, "Invalid blue")
        self.init(red: CGFloat(red) / 255.0, green: CGFloat(green) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat(blue) / 255.0, alpha: 1.0)
    }
}

In this part of code, we have created a “convenience” initializer

Convenience initializers are also aptly named, and they are initializers used to make initialization a bit easier. Designated initializers tend to set all of the properties up and let the user send in values for each. A convenience initializer often has some of those hard coded, and thus can take less parameters. The developer usually write’s a convenience initializer to set some defaults that are appropriate to a special use case.

And we use a “assert” keyword Assert is first shot I came along for asserts. As expected, assert() is evaluated only in debug mode (this is the general rule for asserts in programming languages).

Now you can use in your code like this:

let color = UIColor(red: 100, green: 50, blue: 50)

UIColor from hex

Now add an initializer for UIColor and to be able to handle Hexa value

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hex:Int) {
        self.init(red:(hex >> 16) & 0xff, green:(hex >> 8) & 0xff, blue:hex & 0xff)
    }
}

and use like this:

let red = UIColor(hex: 0xFF0000)

Enjoy! And now color your life !