UIColor is a class representing a solid color or a pattern, similar to brushes in Windows GDI.
Predefined colors
UIColor defines a list of commonly accessed colors. They can be received using +[UIColor someColor], as listed below:
Documented solid colors
| blackColor 0.000 |
darkGrayColor 0.333 |
lightGrayColor 0.667 |
whiteColor 1.000 |
grayColor 0.500 | |||||
| redColor 1.00, 0.00, 0.00 |
greenColor 0.00, 1.00, 0.00 |
blueColor 0.00, 0.00, 1.00 |
cyanColor 0.00, 1.00, 1.00 |
yellowColor 1.00, 1.00, 0.00 | |||||
| magentaColor 1.00, 0.00, 1.00 |
orangeColor 1.00, 0.50, 0.00 |
purpleColor 0.50, 0.00, 0.50 |
brownColor 0.60, 0.40, 0.20 |
clearColor 0.000 [0% alpha] | |||||
| lightTextColor 1.000 [60% alpha] |
darkTextColor 0.000 |
Undocumented solid colors
| tableSeparatorDarkColor 0.66, 0.67, 0.68 |
tableSeparatorLightColor 0.88, 0.88, 0.88 |
tableBackgroundColor 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 |
tableSelectionColor 0.16, 0.43, 0.83 | ||||
| sectionListBorderColor 0.52, 0.56, 0.58 [60% alpha] |
sectionHeaderBackgroundColor 0.90, 0.93, 0.99 [80% alpha] |
sectionHeaderOpaqueBackgroundColor 0.92, 0.94, 0.99 |
sectionHeaderBorderColor 0.85, 0.87, 0.91 | ||||
| tableCellBlueTextColor 0.22, 0.33, 0.53 |
tableCellGrayTextColor 0.50, 0.50, 0.50 |
textFieldAtomBlueColor 0.16, 0.34, 1.00 |
textFieldAtomPurpleColor 0.41, 0.00, 0.74 | ||||
| infoTextOverPinStripeTextColor 0.30, 0.34, 0.42 |
Patterns
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groupTableViewBackgroundColor |
| viewFlipsideBackgroundColor | |
| underPageBackgroundColor (Private) |
CSS colors
-(NSString*)styleString;
UIColors can be converted to CSS colors by the -styleString method. For example, [[UIColor lightTextColor] styleString] gives @"rgba(255,255,255,153)".