Synth

Synth is CRED's inbuilt library for using Neumorphic components in your app.

What really is Neumorphism? It's an impressionistic style, playing with light, shadow, and depth to create a digital experience inspired by the physical world. That's the definition anyway. Our recommendation is you try it out to see what you make of it. If you do create something with Synth, let us know. We're excited to see where you take it.

A note for the curious: if you wish to learn more about Synth, we have a post detailing the concept and CRED's philosophy behind it here.

Installation

It can be easily integrated with Cocoapods. Add this line to your podfile:

pod 'synth-ios'

Requirements

• iOS 11.0+
• Swift 5.1+

Usage

Embossed and Debossed views

As it provides an extension over UIView, you can call it over any UI element

let embossedView = UIView()
embossedView.applyNeuStyle()

calling applyNeuStyle on any view will give default embossed effect. There is also a helper function getDebossModel() in NeuUIHelper which provides debossed effect.

let debossedView = UIView()
debossedView.applyNeuStyle(model: NeuUIHelper.getDebossModel())

applyNeuStyle arguments

attribute	description	value
model	struct which lets you configure base color, shadow direction and shadow offsets	NeuViewModel
showOnlyShadows	enabling this will only render outer or inner shadows skipping the solid background part	Bool

NeuViewModel attributes

all colors are by default derived from base color. You can explictly pass different values when needed.

attribute	description	value
baseColor	base color based on which background and borders are rendered	UIColor
bgGradientColors	colors array which renders background	[UIColor]
borderGradientColors	colors array which renders borders	[UIColor]
borderGradientWidth	outer border width	CGFloat
lightDirection	an enum which lets define light direction	NeuLightDirection
shadowType	an enum which lets define shadow type, outer or inner	NeuShadowType
lightShadowModel	a model to customise shadow offsets of top shadow	NeuShadowModel
darkShadowModel	a model to customise shadow offsets of bottom shadow	NeuShadowModel
blurAmount	amount of guassian blur that has to be applied	CGFloat
hideLightShadow	hides top shadow	Bool
hideDarkShadow	hides bottom shadow	Bool
hideBorder	hides outer border	Bool

Buttons

There are by default four styles which can be applied over UIButton:

elevatedSoft // an embossed button
elevatedSoftRound // a round embossed button
elevatedFlat // flat button
elevatedFlatRound // flat round button

Elevated soft button

let softButton = UIButton()
softButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(type: .elevatedSoft, title: "Idle")

Elevated soft round button

let roundButton = UIButton()
roundButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(type: .elevatedSoftRound, image: UIImage(named: "plus"))

Elevated flat button

Elevated flat button renders a flat surface on top of the elevated neumorphic platform. this flat surface can be customized in two ways:

let flatButton = UIButton()
flatButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(type: .elevatedFlat, title: "Idle")

you can also add an image aligned left to this image. synth will render a neumorphic pit on which the image is rendered.

softButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(type: .elevatedSoft, title: "Idle", image: UIImage(named: "plus"), imageDimension: 12)
softButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(type: .elevatedFlat, title: "Idle", image: UIImage(named: "plus"), imageDimension: 12)

This button is made up of three layers baseModel, innerModel and buttonContentModel named from bottom to top. NeuButtonCustomModel allows you to configure each of these layers and design button.

let model = NeuConstants.NeuButtonCustomModel()
... some configuration
let customButton = UIButton()
customButton.applyNeuBtnStyle(customModel: model, title: "Custom Button")

This library works over base color concept and derives light and dark colors from base color itself. All views and buttons will be using this color to design neumorphic elements. This base color can be set at app start. Similarly, text attributes can be applied at an app-level to give default style to all neumorphic buttons.

NeuUtils.baseColor = UIColor.red

let textAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key:Any] = [:]
textAttributes[.foregroundColor] = .black
NeuUtils.textAttributes = textAttributes

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! We'd love help improving this library. Feel free to browse through open issues to look for things that need work. If you have a feature request or bug, please open a new issue so we can track it.

Contributors

Synth would not have been possible if not for the contributions made by CRED's design and frontend teams.

License

Copyright 2020 Dreamplug Technologies Private Limited.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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