APLUIKitExtension

This package provides extensions and subclasses to commonly used UIKit Classes, like UIColor and UIViewController. Everything is written in Swift, documented and tested. This package is restricted to the iOS platfrom.

Table of Contents

• Overview of Classes and Functionalities
• Installation
  • Swift Package
• Usage
• License

Overview of Classes and Functionalities

In the following an overview of all subclasses/extended classes and their functionalities:

AutoMaxLayoutWidthLabel (subclass of UILabel)

• Automaticly scales the label to its maximal needed size based on its content view.

DefaultTabBarControllerDelegate (subclass of UITabBarControllerDelegate)

• Perform an action in a view controller if the corresponding tab bar item is selected again.

NibLoadable (extension for UIView)

• Generates a nib, nibName and nibInstance of a view. Mainly usefull for UITableViewCell and UICollectionViewCell.

ReusableView (extension for UIView)

• Generate a resuable identifier.

StoryboardLoadable (extension for UIViewController)

• Generate storyboardName and storyboardIdentifier.
• Methods to instantiate a UIViewController with either a storyboard name or a storyboard object.
• Methods to instantiate the initial view controller from either a storyboard name or a storyboard object.

UIBarButtonBadge Extention

• Create and update a Badge.

UIButton Extension

• Set the background to a color, a gradient color, or a rounded image.

UICollectionView Extension

• Given a view determine the index path of the corresponding collection view cell.

UIColor Extension

• Blend colors together
• lighter color
• darker color
• adjust color
• generate image from color
• generate hexstring

UIControl Extension

• Enable adding actions to buttons the swity way.

UIDevice Extension

• Generate the model identifier of the used device.

UIImage Extension

• Generate a gradient image.

UIResponder Extension

• Get the current first responder.

UITableView Extension

• Given a view determine the index path of the corresponding table view cell.

UIView Extension

• Add Swifty way of adding constrains.
• Add inspectable elements for interface builder:
  • cornerRadius
  • cornerIsCircle
  • borderWidth
  • borderColor
  • shadowOffset
  • shadowRadius
  • shadowOpacity
  • layerShadowColor

UIViewController Extension

• Determine the top visible view controller.
• Create different types of UIAlertController with ease.
• Manage back button behaviour in navigation bar.
• Wrapper to embed and unembed view controller into each other.

Installation

Swift Package

Just integrate the APLUIKitExtension via Xcode 11 (tutorial).

Usage

After importing APLUIKitExtension all classes, extensions and documentation can be accessed the default way.

An example of using the method darker() of the UIColor extension:

import APLUIKitExtension

let redColor = UIColor.red
let darkerRedColor = redColor.darker()

An example of using the class 'AutoMaxLayoutWidthLabel':

import APLUIKitExtension

let label = AutoMaxLayoutWidthLabel(frame: .zero)

License

APLUIKitExtension is created by apploft on 02.04.2020. Copyright © 2019 apploft GmbH MIT License · http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/