themed_color_palette 0.4.2

A code generator to create a themed color palette from a yaml file.

Themed Color Palette

Create a theme yaml file

Create a yaml file with the extension .theme.dart.

Fill the yaml files with the collections of values of your theme:

.themes: # Those are the different themes of the app.
  - light
  - dark
.name: themedColorPalette
.description: The Themed Color Palette
.shared: # The shared values are constants independent of the theme.
  radius:
    .description: Default radius.
    .type: double
    .value: 4
  padding:
    .description: Default padding.
    .type: double
    .value: 8
.themed: # Themed values are values that change between the different themes.
  primaryColor:
    .description: Primary color
    .type: color
    light: ff00296b
    dark: ffb1cff5
  secondaryColor:
    .description: Secondary color
    .type: color
    light: ffd26900
    dark: ffffd270

An example can be found in the example folder.

About the yaml file

Each object has several properties:

• .name: The name of the object. It should be in camelCase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case.
• .description: A short description of the object so we know what it is used for This description will be comments in the code, the developers will see when they code/use it.

Values:

There are different type of values:

• int: Number with no decimals (ex: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...).
• double: Number with decimals (ex: 0.5, 1.0 ...)..
• color: Should be aarrggbb format. When importing a color, you can add the parameter withOpacity and a double in [0, 1]. You can also import the opacity used in the withOpacity parameter.
• fontWeight: The different values are:
  • w100, thin
  • w200, extraLight
  • w300, light
  • w400, medium
  • w500, normal, regular, plain
  • w600, semiBold
  • w700, bold
  • w800, extraBold
  • w900, black
• bool: A boolean, the different values are:
  • true
  • false
• brightness: The brightness values are:
  • light
  • dark

.flutter: .flutter property is used when a value is used to sed the Flutter Material theme (ex: cardColor). Specify what value it specifies in the flutter theme (ex: theme.cardColor) It will indicates to the user to use the cardColor from the Flutter Material Theme instead.

Imports

You can only import values that have been PREVIOUSLY defined (aka higher in the file).

Editing on VSCode

You can install this VSCode extension to provide a better editing experience with highlighting and decorations.

Builder configuration

Create a build.yaml at the root of your repository:

targets:
  $default:
    builders:
      themed_color_palette:themedColorPaletteGeneratorBuilder:
        enabled: true
        generate_for:
          - lib/*

Generates the code

Run

flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs