In this iPhone app tutorial, we will chek for customizing the iOS app theme for both ios dark theme and light.
Things that we will cover,
- What iOS Dark Mode is and what it does
- The benefits of using Dark Mode
- Important considerations while implementing Dark Mode in an app
- Customizing the color scheme for your iOS application for different themes – light and dark mode.
Dark Mode is a dark system-wide appearance that uses a darker color palette for all screens, views, menus, and controls. Basically, like Android Dark Mode, it changes a bright theme to a darker one. It also maintains vibrancy and contrast to make foreground content stand out against a darker background.
- It is most helpful when the surrounding is dark. This puts less strain on eyes as compared to light mode.
- You can choose Dark Mode as your default interface style.
- You can also use Settings to make your device switch to Dark Mode automatically when ambient light is low.
- Dark Mode supports all accessibility features.
- Put the focus on content
- Test for both- light and dark appearances
- Test with changes in contrast and transparency
Step 1: Create a new project in Xcode Step 2: Add a new color set in assets.xcassets folder as shown in the images Step 3: Go to Storyboard and drag & drop controls that you would like to add to your project. Step 4: Go to the view controller and create outlet(s) for UI Controls. Step 5: Create employee struct and create an array of employee struct Step 6: Append the data in arrEmployee to bind with UITableView Step 7: Assign data source for the table view Step 8: Create a UITableViewCell class for employee Step 9: Implement the UITableView data source method Step 10: Create switch event to set theme ( light or dark ) for UILable Step 11: Set default behavior for controls in viewdidload Step 12: Compare assets folder with below images
and done.
We hope that you found this iPhone tutorial useful and your concepts about iPhone Dark Mode are clear.