How to use hex color values

Question

I am trying to use hex color values in Swift, instead of the few standard ones that UIColor allows you to use, but I have no idea how to do it.

Example: how would I use #ffffff as a color?

Answer 1

Swift 3: Hex and CSS color name support via a UIColor

Gist code

Example strings:

• Orange, Lime, Tomato, etc.
• Clear, Transparent, nil, and empty string yield [UIColor clearColor]
• abc
• abc7
• #abc7
• 00FFFF
• #00FFFF
• 00FFFF77

Playground output:

Answer 2

Here's a Swift extension on UIColor that takes a hex string:

import UIKit

extension UIColor {

    convenience init(hexString: String) {
        // Trim leading '#' if needed
        var cleanedHexString = hexString
        if hexString.hasPrefix("#") {
//            cleanedHexString = dropFirst(hexString) // Swift 1.2
            cleanedHexString = String(hexString.characters.dropFirst()) // Swift 2
        }

        // String -> UInt32
        var rgbValue: UInt32 = 0
        NSScanner(string: cleanedHexString).scanHexInt(&rgbValue)

        // UInt32 -> R,G,B
        let red = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 16) & 0xff) / 255.0
        let green = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 08) & 0xff) / 255.0
        let blue = CGFloat((rgbValue >> 00) & 0xff) / 255.0

        self.init(red: red, green: green, blue: blue, alpha: 1.0)
    }

}

Answer 3

Swift 2.0:

In viewDidLoad()

 var viewColor:UIColor
    viewColor = UIColor()
    let colorInt:UInt
    colorInt = 0x000000
    viewColor = UIColorFromRGB(colorInt)
    self.View.backgroundColor=viewColor



func UIColorFromRGB(rgbValue: UInt) -> UIColor {
    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)
    )
}

Answer 4

Swift 4.0

use this Single line of method

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

   let color = UIColor(hexColor: "FF00A0")
   self.view.backgroundColor = color

}

You have to create new Class or use any controller where u need to use Hex color. This extension class provide you UIColor that will convert Hex to RGB color.

extension UIColor {
convenience init(hexColor: String) {
    let scannHex = Scanner(string: hexColor)
    var rgbValue: UInt64 = 0
    scannHex.scanLocation = 0
    scannHex.scanHexInt64(&rgbValue)
    let r = (rgbValue & 0xff0000) >> 16
    let g = (rgbValue & 0xff00) >> 8
    let b = rgbValue & 0xff
    self.init(
        red: CGFloat(r) / 0xff,
        green: CGFloat(g) / 0xff,
        blue: CGFloat(b) / 0xff, alpha: 1
    )
  }
}

Answer 5

Swift 4 : Combining the answers of Sulthan and Luca Torella :

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexFromString:String, alpha:CGFloat = 1.0) {
        var cString:String = hexFromString.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).uppercased()
        var rgbValue:UInt32 = 10066329 //color #999999 if string has wrong format

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

        if ((cString.count) == 6) {
            Scanner(string: cString).scanHexInt32(&rgbValue)
        }

        self.init(
            red: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.0,
            green: CGFloat((rgbValue & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.0,
            blue: CGFloat(rgbValue & 0x0000FF) / 255.0,
            alpha: alpha
        )
    }
}

Usage examples:

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "4F9BF5")

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "#4F9BF5")

let myColor = UIColor(hexFromString: "#4F9BF5", alpha: 0.5)

Answer 6

This answer shows how to do it in Obj-C. The bridge is to use

let rgbValue = 0xFFEEDD
let r = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16)/255.0
let g = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF00) >> 8)/255.0
let b = Float((rgbValue & 0xFF))/255.0
self.backgroundColor = UIColor(red:r, green: g, blue: b, alpha: 1.0)