Google maps autocomplete change color

Question

I am searching for change color of GMSAutocompleteViewController

Here is what I am getting:

I want the textfield to be white with white cancel button.

Have you tried reading this Stack overflow related tickets? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340224/iphone-uitextfield-change-placeholder-text-color, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19651374/how-to-change-cancel-button-tint-color-of-uisearchbar-in-ios7 or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27838084/change-uibarbuttonitem-from-uisearchbar — Android Enthusiast, Feb 20 '16 at 20:56

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '17 at 13:59

Swift 3

@IBAction func searchCityBtn(_ sender: Any) {
        let autocompleteController = GMSAutocompleteViewController()
        autocompleteController.delegate = self
        UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 44.0/255, green: 44.0/255, blue: 49.0/255, alpha: 1.0)
        UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white

        UISearchBar.appearance().setTextColor(UIColor.white)
        UISearchBar.appearance().barStyle = UIBarStyle.default
        UISearchBar.appearance().setPlaceholderTextColor(.white)
        UISearchBar.appearance().setSearchImageColor(.white)

        self.present(autocompleteController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

more info about what you can edit here.... Thank god they updated their framework and doc! Cheers!

where are these methods ? "setTextColor", "setPlaceholderTextColor", "setSearchImageColor". Have you written a ny extension ? if yes then please share that as well. — Umair Afzal, Jul 18 '17 at 12:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '16 at 02:09

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The latest release of the Google Places SDK for iOS (1.13) has added extra support for customising colors in GMSAutocompleteViewController. There's a good overview in the online guide.

answered Apr 12 '16 at 02:09

AndrewR

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You added nothing. You're relying on application-wide customizations, which is completely stupid. Instead of doing something correctly and adding properties directly on the VC. Every time I have to use a Google framework on iOS, I'm baffled by how bad it is. – ThibaultV Jul 20 '18 at 14:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 21 '16 at 16:04

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Add following code inside didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
   UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]
} else {
   // Fallback on earlier versions
}

edited Jul 21 '16 at 16:04

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answered Jul 21 '16 at 15:16

Shyamal Ranjana

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Adii · Answer 4 · 2016-07-28T12:43:45.100

Change color of GMSAutocompleteViewController

Do following things:

-Create a new NSObject class to set the attributes of UITextField

.h file

@interface HelperClass : NSObject

+(void)setTextFieldAttributes;

@end

.m file

@implementation HelperClass


+(void)setTextFieldAttributes{


    [[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil]
     setDefaultTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]}];
    [[UITextField appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

}

@end

and then in your ControllerClass: GMSAutocompleteViewController

UItextFieldGoogleHelperClass.setTextFieldAttributes()

will do the trick, worked for me.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 30 '17 at 07:26

I face the same issue while working on Google Maps API and found my solution by the following line of code:

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[<Object of your Google Maps API class(like GMSAutocompleteViewController)>.searchDisplayController.searchBar class], nil] setDefaultTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]}];

Add the line above after you make an object of your Google Maps API class and before you present the class.

The accepted answer above will also work for this scenario and is appreciable, but that line of code will make default black color for the text in the search bar.

By using my answer, one can change the text color to any custom color available in iOS.

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 19 '16 at 17:30

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A view controller's view can be accessed through it's view property which is just a regular UIView. UIView have a backgroundColor property which is a UIColor and controls the color of the view.

Here is a sample code for changing background color:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.yellowColor()

answered Feb 19 '16 at 17:30

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This doesn't really answer his question. You need to be more specific. – jervine10 Feb 19 '16 at 17:39

Google maps autocomplete change color

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