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Use Custom Colours From Assets Without Relying On Strings

Use Custom Colours From Assets Without Relying On Strings

Daily Coding Tip 293

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Jul 06, 2022
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Before Xcode 15 you could create a Color Set in your Assets catalog, but you could only use it like this:

.foregroundColor(Color("exampleColour"))

Now it’s possible to do something that doesn’t involve raw strings, and therefore isn’t in danger of becoming an invalid colour due a typo.

The first thing I need to do is create a…

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