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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Improving Our User Interface Random Colors

Dmitry Pavlovsky
Dmitry Pavlovsky
2,502 Points
Posted by Dmitry Pavlovsky
Dmitry Pavlovsky
2,502 Points

Differente ways?

Why should we declare new constant randomColor in ViewController? while view.backgroundColor = colorProvider.randomColor() where randomColor is taken from BackgroundcolorProvider will works as well.

1 Answer

Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points
Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points

It's a personal choice. One could argue the 2 line method is more clear on what's going on instead of having one long line.

Edit: In this case it makes sense to store the color in a constant since we are assigning the same color on 2 elements, the background and the button tint/text color. Otherwise the 2 elements would have different colors and would not be correct.