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user1062142
user1062142

Reputation: 119

Can the iOS8 InvertColors function be called in an apps code?

iOS now has a setting in General, accessibility, "Invert Colors". It basically provides a negative image of an app's colors.

I have an app that is mostly dark background elements with light icons and buttons. It would be great to have a setting inside my app to call that invert colors function as needed for specific users.

Any ideas if that setting is exposed? Thanks much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 34

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 535566

In general you have no access to the user's Settings, and this is no exception. Your app can't alter general settings on the user's device; that would be a terrible security hole!

However, nothing stops you from putting up an alert or other dialog suggesting that the user might like to do this.

Alternatively, though, what I would recommend is themes. Basically give the user a preference within the app, so that the user can choose or alter the colors of things. Then, in response to the user's setting, you use the appearance proxy to change all the colors thematically throughout the app. There was a good WWDC video either in 2013 or 2012, I think, on this very idea.

Upvotes: 1

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