It’s very important to have all your project resources organized and consistent, thus you won’t have to spend hours of time changing a single wide-spread color in your app.
Working together with our designers, who supply us with handy theme style sheets, we wanted to have a single access point to a list of colors used in the app in order to maintain them all at once.
So we developed a few easy to use utils that help us to keep our code clean and up to date without any overhead.
You may find two targets in the main project: RMRHexColorGen and RMRRefreshColorPanelPlugin.
RMRHexColorGen generates a UIColor class category with all the colors you declare and .CLR file with color palette used within the standard OS X Color Panel component in Xcode and other desktop apps.
We’ve faced a non-obvious caveat during our investigation: in order to refresh the list of Color Panel palettes one must restart the app that uses it.
So here’s the RMRRefreshColorPanelPlugin comes on stage. This plugin simply forces Xcode to refresh its instance of Color Panel after every build.
Thus, in case you’ve updated your color list file — RMRHexColorGen will generate a new .CLR file AND RMRRefreshColorPanelPlugin will refresh Color Panel for you.
Small utility that generates UIColor category from colors list:
#AARRGGBB ColorName
#AARRGGBB ColorName
#AARRGGBB ColorName
#AARRGGBB ColorName
Use -clr option to generate and install Color Palette.
RMRHexColorGen [-i <path>] [-o <path>] [-p <prefix>] [-clr]
-o <path> Output files at <path>
-i <path> Path to txt colors list file
-p <prefix> Use <prefix> as the class prefix in the generated code
-clr Use this flag if you need to generate and install CLR file
-h Print this help and exit
Xcode plugin that force Color Panel to reload custom Color Palettes after every build.
Just clone this repo, run RMRRefreshColorPanelPlugin target and restart Xcode.
RMRRefreshColorPanelPlugin will refresh Color Panel after every build end.
Select Reload color lists from the Edit menu to force refresh.
RMRColorTools-iOS is available under the MIT license.