Color.fromString
An important update ! From a Reddit user (pengo-san) that commented on my thread for this… they found the following blog entry that you should read if you are needing more than what my solution offers. https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/EncodeAndDecodeSwiftUIColor/
SwiftUI’s Color object is not codable – and therefore not easy to store. This makes it simple by allowing you to store a Color using Color.description and then recreating the Color using this function as an extension to Color
Simple to use…
Add this to any of your apps .swift files – outside of any structs or classes
Save a Color to a String using Color.description (this even works with the different Color.description obtained from ColorPicker and by using Color enums such as Color.Pink) You can also manually create a color string using the format “#rrggbboo” where the initial # is required, then the rr, gg, bb and oo are hexadecimal numbers for Red, Green, Blue and Opacity components.
Recreate the Color from the stored String using Color.fromString()
Example…
var myColorString: String = “#C0C0C0FF” var myColorObj: Color = .clear var myPink: String = Color.pink.description var pinkColorObj: Color = .clear
in code… myColorObj = Color.fromString(myColorString) //Returns a Color that is gray (rgba = C0C0C0FF) pinkColorObj = Color.fromString(myPink) //Returns a Color equal to Color.pink
you can now use a Color.description String in structs (and classes) and make the struct Codable… you can also store Colors in CoreData as a string
Please feel free to make this better and share it with me !
