How to use Image Literal in Xcode 13

Question

The most used feature is missing in Xcode 13

Image Literal

#imageLiteral()

these commands do not seem to be working. A similar change has happened for Color Literals as well.

Bilharziasis

Did you check this https://mcmap.net/q/503343/-quot-image-literal-quot-commands-not-working-in-xcode/1187415 ? – Bustamante

@MartinR That's not consistently working for me – Bilharziasis

I'd give up if I were you. Image literals and color literals have not worked usefully in years. Xcode 13 is merely the latest iteration. If, as your question implies, you use them a lot, stop doing so. – Example

In Xcode 13, use #imageLiteral( without the closing parenthesis. That will put the literal in the code and is the best workaround thus far. Code completion no longer works for literals in Xcode 13. – Kaduna

@Rajesh, add images to the asset catalog first. The image literal requires images to be in an asset catalog before it will open. – Kaduna

Answer 1

There is no longer image literal :(

You may try:

Who.What = UIImage(named: "catImage")

Stallard

This is simpler than #imageLiteral( because the popup picker sometimes does not works – Autumnautumnal

Xcode 14.2 allows one to use an image literal simply as typing imageView.image = #imageLiteral() at which point the #imageLiteral() in the above changed to a clickable icon allowing you to select any image you have placed into the projects assets. – Gamble

Answer 2

I came up with a workaround

Create code snippets for color literal and image literal like below

Color

#colorLiteral()

And add completion shortcut as you want, Example: colorLiteral. Do same for Image literal

Image

#imageLiteral()

And add completion shortcut as you want. Call those completion shortcuts in your code to get color and image literals.

Endamage

Answer 3

type Who.What = #imageLiteral( Currently it works like this.

Ronni

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Answer 4

I used

UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "image_asset_name")

and it works perfectly fine on XCode 13.2.1

Necessity

Confirmed in Monterey – Gilli

Answer 5

You need to set a variable at the top of your struct to hold the color and image literals before you use them in the view body.

let color = #colorLiteral(red: 0.1411764771, green: 0.3960784376, blue: 0.5647059083, alpha: 1)
let image = #imageLiteral(resourceName: "cherry1")

creating a shortcut is handy but it doesn't solve the problem of Xcode not allowing literals to be used as parameters to views.

This is a nice feature in Xcode and you may find it cool for small projects, but the best way to handle images, colours and other resources is to look into a package like R.Swift or Swiftgen

https://github.com/SwiftGen/SwiftGen

https://github.com/mac-cain13/R.swift

I prefer swiftgen since R.swift is not currently working with M1 Macs.

Scenarist

Answer 6

I can't make Xcode auto complete colorLiteral, but you can still use the inline color picker.

This is a workaround which works in Xcode 14.2.

Where you want the color picker, enter any color full colorLiteral

#colorLiteral(red: 0.1411764771, green: 0.3960784376, blue: 0.5647059083, alpha: 1)

Xcode will then display the color picker which you can use.

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