How can I use UIColorFromRGB in Swift?

Question

In Objective-C, we use this code to set RGB color codes for views:

#define UIColorFromRGB(rgbValue)        
[UIColor colorWithRed:((float)((rgbValue & 0x         


        

Answer 1

For Xcode 9, use UIColor with RGB values.

shareBtn.backgroundColor = UIColor( red: CGFloat(92/255.0), green: CGFloat(203/255.0), blue: CGFloat(207/255.0), alpha: CGFloat(1.0) )

Preview:

See additional Apple documentation on UIColor.

Answer 2

In Swift3, if you are starting with a color you have already chosen, you can get the RGB value online (http://imagecolorpicker.com) and use those values defined as a UIColor. This solution implements them as a background:

    @IBAction func blueBackground(_ sender: Any) {
        let blueColor = UIColor(red: CGFloat(160/255), green: CGFloat(183.0/255), blue: CGFloat(227.0/255), alpha: 1)
        view.backgroundColor = blueColor

@Vadym mentioned this above in the comments and it is important to define the CGFloat with a single decimal point

Answer 3

myLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 50.0/255, green: 150.0/255, blue: 65.0/255, alpha: 1.0)

Answer 4

If you're starting from a string (not hex) this is a function that takes a hex string and returns a UIColor.
(You can enter hex strings with either format: #ffffff or ffffff)

Usage:

var color1 = hexStringToUIColor("#d3d3d3")

Swift 4:

func hexStringToUIColor (hex:String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
        cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
    }

    if ((cString.count) != 6) {
        return UIColor.gray
    }

    var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
    Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)

    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

Swift 3:

func hexStringToUIColor (hex:String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
        cString.remove(at: cString.startIndex)
    }

    if ((cString.characters.count) != 6) {
        return UIColor.gray
    }

    var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
    Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)

    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

Swift 2:

func hexStringToUIColor (hex:String) -> UIColor {
    var cString:String = hex.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet() as NSCharacterSet).uppercaseString

    if (cString.hasPrefix("#")) {
      cString = cString.substringFromIndex(cString.startIndex.advancedBy(1))
    }

    if ((cString.characters.count) != 6) {
      return UIColor.grayColor()
    }

    var rgbValue:UInt32 = 0
    NSScanner(string: cString).scanHexInt(&rgbValue)

    return UIColor(
        red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
        green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
        blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
        alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
    )
}

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Source: arshad/gist:de147c42d7b3063ef7bc

Answer 5

I wanted to put

cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.colorWithRed(125/255.0, green: 125/255.0, blue: 125/255.0, alpha: 1.0)  

but that didn't work.

So I used:
For Swift

cell.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.5, green: 0.5, blue: 0.5, alpha: 1.0)  

So this is the workaround that I found.

Answer 6

I really liked Nate Cook's answer but I wanted something a little more idiomatic. I believe this is a really good use case for a convenience initializer via a custom extension.

// UIColorExtensions.swift
import Foundation
import UIKit

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(rgb: UInt) {
        self.init(
            red: CGFloat((rgb & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgb & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgb & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: CGFloat(1.0)
        )
    }
}

This can now be used like so:

view.backgroundColor = UIColor(rgb: 0x209624)

I would only recommend monkey patching UIKit classes like this in your own client code, not libraries.