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Rohitax Rajguru
Rohitax Rajguru

Reputation: 923

Change UILabel's textColor in whole app using Swift

Is there any way in Swift i can change my UILabel's text color property at once in whole app? I've tried using appeareance property but that doesn't work for UILabel textColor. Any way or any library that works on the same.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 6009

Answers (4)

Alex Ioja-Yang
Alex Ioja-Yang

Reputation: 1533

I really liked Arash Etemad's solution, but found it quite extreme as it overrode ALL colours, even if some of them were customised. That's not great when working on an existing large project.

So I came up with this (Swift 5.2):

extension UILabel {

    override open func willMove(toSuperview newSuperview: UIView?) {
        super.willMove(toSuperview: newSuperview)

        guard newSuperview != nil else {
            return
        }

        if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
            if textColor == UIColor.label {
                textColor = .red
            }
        } else if textColor == UIColor.darkText {
            textColor = .red
        }
    }    
}

It uses the labels own lifecycle event to override default system font colour. With the appearance of dark mode in iOS 13, that can be identified as UIColor.label, whereas before it's UIColor.darkText.

This prevents a custom font colour from being overriden (unless your custom colour is the same as the default ?!? ), whilst not requiring to manually set font colour all over the project.

Upvotes: 4

Vincent Joy
Vincent Joy

Reputation: 2678

Create a UILabel class and set the textColour in that class to your desired colour. And give this class to all the labels you are using in the app. If you want to change the colour of all labels during the session, say by button action, you can use NotificationCenter and Singleton for that purpose.

class LabelColor {
    static let shared = LabelColor()
    var color = UIColor.red
}

class ColoredLabel: UILabel {

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        textColor = LabelColor.shared.color
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.changeColor(notification:)), name: Notification.Name(rawValue: "ChangeColor"), object: nil)
    }

    @objc func changeColor(notification: Notification) {
        let newColor = UIColor.blue
        textColor = newColor
        LabelColor.shared.color = newColor
    }

    deinit {
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
    }
}

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    @IBAction func changeColour(_ sender: UIButton) {
        NotificationCenter.default.post(name: Notification.Name("ChangeColor"), object: nil)
    }
}

StoryBoard

Upvotes: 1

Arash Etemad
Arash Etemad

Reputation: 1909

try this in your AppDelegate.swift inside didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function:

UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UIView.self]).textColor = .red //or what color you want

Upvotes: 5

Robert Dresler
Robert Dresler

Reputation: 11210

One way is using Color Set.

Start with creating new set in your xcassets catalog

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... and name it how you want to

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Then change your color to color that you need

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Finally, set color of your label as this color from xcassets catalog

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... or programmatically

label.textColor = UIColor(named: "ColorForLabel")

Now when you need to change color of text, just change color of this Color Set

Upvotes: 8

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