Asset Colors in Packages

Xcode allows you to easily add custom colors to the Assets file in your project. Add a Color Set, then use the Inspector to modify the color.

To use your new color in your project, adding a color extension with the custom color’s name makes your life easier. Example below…

extension Color {
    static let myAwesomeClr = Color("theNameOfMyColorInAssets")
}

Then you can do things like…

Color(.myAwesomeClr)

If you want to include that color in a Package, you need to..

• Declare your extension public (like everything in a Package)
• Create a UIColor and cast that as a Color. (This took me a while to figure out which is why I am posting this.) See below…

public extension Color {
    static let myAwesomeClr = Color(UIColor(named: "theNameOfMyColorInAssets", in: .module, compatibleWith: nil)!)
}

• And, you need to add a resource target to your Package file…

let package = Package(
    name: "YourPackageName",
    
... some common package info here omitted for this example ....

    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "YourPackageName",
            dependencies: [],
            resources: [
                .process("Assets.xcassets"),
            ]
            ),
        .testTarget(
...  more code here ....

Where Assets is the name of the media file that has your color.