frasza
12/31/2017 - 12:25 PM

Hex color to UIColor

Function that takes hex color input and produces UIColor

hexColorToUIColor
content_copyfile_download
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)
    )
}