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UIClolor+HexString: Create your UIColor from a "css color code
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface UIColor (HexString)
+ (UIColor *) colorFromHexString:(NSString *)hexString;
@end
#import "UIColor+HexString.h"
@implementation UIColor (HexString)
+ (UIColor *) colorFromHexString:(NSString *)hexString {
NSString *cleanString = [hexString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"#" withString:@""];
if([cleanString length] == 3) {
cleanString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@%@%@%@",
[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)],[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)],
[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(1, 1)],[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(1, 1)],
[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(2, 1)],[cleanString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(2, 1)]];
}
if([cleanString length] == 6) {
cleanString = [cleanString stringByAppendingString:@"ff"];
}
unsigned int baseValue;
[[NSScanner scannerWithString:cleanString] scanHexInt:&baseValue];
float red = ((baseValue >> 24) & 0xFF)/255.0f;
float green = ((baseValue >> 16) & 0xFF)/255.0f;
float blue = ((baseValue >> 8) & 0xFF)/255.0f;
float alpha = ((baseValue >> 0) & 0xFF)/255.0f;
return [UIColor colorWithRed:red green:green blue:blue alpha:alpha];
}
@end
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