I am using google places API for autoComplete widget. I am showing the full screen control in ios 9+ using swift. I am adding a full control as given in the docs.
I have added the code as shown in the docs. Now I want to change the searchBar text color to whiteColor.
So I tried this
UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
But I am not getting the desired behaviour. Below is the screenshot
This has been given in Docs
https://developers.google.com/places/ios-api/autocomplete#use_a_table_data_source
But this is not working. I need help with regarding to this.
You need to create an extension like follwoing:
public extension UISearchBar {
public func setNewcolor(color: UIColor) {
let clrChange = subviews.flatMap { $0.subviews }
guard let sc = (clrChange.filter { $0 is UITextField }).first as? UITextField else { return }
sc.textColor = color
}
}
And change color using following code:
controller.searchBar.setNewcolor(UIColor.redColor())
Output is :
Update:
For the change color of searchBar text for the GMSAutocompleteViewController
you need to do following code:
let searchBarTextAttributes: [String : AnyObject] = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(UIFont.systemFontSize())]
UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = searchBarTextAttributes
That change the text out put like following image:
And if you wish to change placeholder text and it's color for searchBar
. You need to do following code:
let placeholderAttributes: [String : AnyObject] = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(UIFont.systemFontSize())]
let attributedPlaceholder: NSAttributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "Find a place", attributes: placeholderAttributes)
UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).attributedPlaceholder = attributedPlaceholder
It will be show like:
Use Bellow code for Swift 3
if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.green]
} else {
// Fallback on earlier versions
}
Hope this helps.
You can use UIAppearance protocol to get the appearance proxy for a class which is available in iOS 5.0 and later.
There are actually two ways to customize appearance for objects and to get the appearance proxy for the class.
- To customize the appearance of all instances of a class, use
appearance
.
- To customize the appearances for instances of a class when contained within an instance of a container class, or instances in a hierarchy, use
appearanceWhenContainedIn
.
You can apply this sample code:
[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setDefaultTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor]}];
You can also try another option given in this SO post - UISearchBar text color change in iOS 7.
I hope that covers your issue. Happy coding!
For swift 4 ios 12
UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes
.updateValue(UIColor.white, forKey: NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue)
In swift 5:
let searchBarTextAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key : AnyObject] = [NSAttributedString.Key(rawValue: NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor.rawValue): UIColor.red, NSAttributedString.Key(rawValue: NSAttributedString.Key.font.rawValue): UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14.0)]
UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = searchBarTextAttributes