UITableView dark theme

Question

I'm trying to make my app use a dark theme, so far I've changed the style of navigation controllers and tab bar controller to Dark from the storyboard to get the system dark theme but when I tried to make my table views dark I wasn't able to find an equivalent option.

Am I missing something and there is an option, in storyboard or code, to make all UITableView s use a system dark theme? If not, what is the best way to achieve this using default/standard colours?

I'm trying to achieve something similar to the Activity app that becomes available when you pair an Apple Watch:

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a "dark theme"... unless you create one yourself.

There are various ways that you can customise a UITableView though...

The best place to find them is the Apple Documentation for UITableView .

You can change the backgroundColor the cell colour the separator colour, etc, etc...

Answer 2

There is no implementation out of the box by Apple.

Here's a universal approach:

1. Make a Theme class for UI configuration. It will hold several properties like UIColors/UIImages/SystemSoundIDs/Strings etc. depending on what you need.

2. You could also make a config json file and make a theme parameters list for theme configuration. (this will make it easier to configure if you want to change smth fast or even receive a json config from server for example and configure the whole app)

3. Theme object will take certain parameters or fields of a json file and configure fonts/colors/backgrounds/sizes etc.

4. You can make a method, something like class func applyThemeToViewController(vc: UIViewController, theme: Theme) for configuring a certain screen or config something global through UIAppearence proxy.