Crayons

An Xcode plugin to improve dealing with colors in your project

Code Quality Rank: L2

Programming language: Objective-C

License: MIT License

Tags: Color    

README

Crayons is an Xcode7 plugin with various features that improve working with colors in your projects

Code palettes (iOS only)

You can share palettes of colors from your source files, and use them directly in Interface Builder, without having to manually recreate them in the Color Picker. And if you decide to change a color, you just need to change it's implementation. Colors are generated dynamically, so you can use any method or calculation you need. Because of that, project has to built to get updated colors, so it might take a while before they are updated in IB after a code change.

Usage

Define a palette by adding the class method

    + (NSString *)paletteName
    class func paletteName() -> String 

to any class (Class has to derive from NSObject at some level, so no pure Swift classes at the moment). To define a color, add a class method or variable with any name that returns UIColor, for example

    + (UIColor *)colorName
    class func colorName() -> UIColor
    class var colorName: UIColor

Only methods with no parameters are supported at the moment, and only UIColors in the RGB and White color space (so no colorWithPatternImage:)

You can then create a category/extension of you palette class, to create a separate palette with the same name plus the category name (look at GooglePalette and GooglePalette+Accents in the example project)

UIColor categories (like Chameleon will also generate palettes automatically.

Look at the example project for more infos.

Upcoming features

• Colors validation (show IB warnings if using colors not defined in any palette)
• OSX support?
• More ways to define palettes/colors
• Show status of colors generations / indexing
• Any feature you think could be useful? Contact me (@Sephiroth87)

Installation

• Clone and build the project
• Use Alcatraz

Either way, restart Xcode to make it load

Release notes

1.3

• Add support for Swift class variables

1.2

• Xcode 7.3 support
• Improved internal logic + bugfixes

1.1

• You can now use categories/extensions for secondary palettes, and automatic UIColor palettes

1.0

• Initial Release
• Code palettes for iOS

License

Copyright (c) 2015. Fabio Ritrovato

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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