JStyle
JStyle is a style engine for iOS. Traditionally, we'd have to embed all our images in our main bundle, or load them from a network resource. Sometimes both of those options suck. JStyle works by managing a property list with keys and values. We refer to keys as scopes. Access to specific resources is governed by these scopes.
For instance, if we want to load a color, and we know it's scope name is color.home.background, then we can use some code like this:
UIColor* backgroundColor = [[VStyle style] colorForScope:@"home.background"];
or alternatively, if you're in a UIViewController which implements the JStyleService protocol, we'll use the -[YourViewController serviceName] method to make accessing scopes a bit nicer. For instance:
UIColor* backgroundColor = [[self style] colorForScope:@"background"];
In the latter form, the -[UIViewController style] you can get this in the UIViewController+JStyle.h header included in the repository.
The same pattern can be produced for pattern, which loads an image and returns a UIColor instance. If the pattern image cannot be found, but there exists a scope that starts with "color" instead of "pattern" but is otherwise identical, we'll return that instead. For instance, if you have a pattern scope like pattern.home.background and that image it references cannot be found, but there exists a color.home.background key, we'll use that colour instead.
Additionally, you can use image and font prefixes to scopes, and the associated method calls to return a UIImage or a UIFont instance.
Installation
You can use submodules, if you want, copy the source tree into your repo if you want, but I strongly suggest that once you've figured out how to include the code in yours, you set up a workspace, or drag this project file into yours, adding a dependency on libJStyle.a in your link library build phase.
License
Copyright © 2013, Jeremy Tregunna, All Rights Reserved.
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