Get lighter and darker color variations for a given UIColor

Question

How to get different lighter and darker variations of a given UIColor in Swift?

Answer 1

The code example below demonstrate how you can get a lighter and darker shade of a given color, useful in applications having dynamic themes

For Darker Color

+ (UIColor *)darkerColorForColor:(UIColor *)c
{
CGFloat r, g, b, a;
    if ([c getRed:&r green:&g blue:&b alpha:&a])
return [UIColor colorWithRed:MAX(r - 0.2, 0.0)
                               green:MAX(g - 0.2, 0.0)
                                blue:MAX(b - 0.2, 0.0)
return nil; 
}

For Lighter Color

+ (UIColor *)lighterColorForColor:(UIColor *)c
{
CGFloat r, g, b, a;
    if ([c getRed:&r green:&g blue:&b alpha:&a])
return [UIColor colorWithRed:MIN(r + 0.2, 1.0)
                       green:MIN(g + 0.2, 1.0)
                        blue:MIN(b + 0.2, 1.0)
alpha:a];
return nil;
}