UIView background color in Swift

Question

Is there a way to set the UIView background color with Swift?

I know that in Objective-C, you would use self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];,

Answer 1

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()

In Swift 3:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.red

Answer 2

You can use this extension as an alternative if you're dealing with RGB value.

extension UIColor {
    static func rgb(red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat) -> UIColor {
        return UIColor(red: red/255, green: green/255, blue: blue/255, alpha: 1)
      }
    }

Answer 3

You can use the line below which goes into a closure (viewDidLoad, didLayOutSubViews, etc):

self.view.backgroundColor = .redColor()

EDIT Swift 3:

view.backgroundColor = .red

Answer 4

In Swift 4, just as simple as Swift 3:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.brown

Answer 5

If you want to set your custom RGB color try this:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 20/255.0, green: 106/255.0, blue: 93/255.0, alpha: 1)

Don't forget to keep /255.0 for every color

Answer 6

The response by @Miknash and @wolfgang gutierrez barrera was helpful to me. Only difference was I had to add rgbValue: to the function call.

UIColorFromHex(rgbValue: 0xA6D632,alpha: 1 ) like so