How to get RGB components from Color SwiftUI

Question

If I have a SwiftUI Color:

let col: Color = Color(red: 0.5, green: 0.5, blue: 0.5)

How do I get the RGB components from

Answer 1

Waiting for an API I've abused CustomStringConvertible protocol for the simple rgba case where the color description format is #rrggbbaa

debugPrint(Color.red)
debugPrint(Color(red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0))
debugPrint(Color(red: 1.0, green: 0.3, blue: 0.0))
debugPrint(Color(.sRGB, red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.5, opacity: 0.3))
debugPrint(Color(hue: 1.0, saturation: 0.0, brightness: 1.0))
debugPrint(Color(.displayP3, red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, opacity: 1.0).description)

red
#FF0000FF
#FF4C00FF
#FF00804D
#FFFFFFFF
"DisplayP3(red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, opacity: 1.0)"

as you can see, things like Color.red just dump "red" but if you are working with simple RGB colors generated by code (ie from a color picker) then this is not too bad

extension SwiftUI.Color {
    var redComponent: Double? {
        let val = description
        guard val.hasPrefix("#") else { return nil }
        let r1 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 1)
        let r2 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 2)
        return Double(Int(val[r1...r2], radix: 16)!) / 255.0
    }

    var greenComponent: Double? {
        let val = description
        guard val.hasPrefix("#") else { return nil }
        let g1 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 3)
        let g2 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 4)
        return Double(Int(val[g1...g2], radix: 16)!) / 255.0
    }

    var blueComponent: Double? {
        let val = description
        guard val.hasPrefix("#") else { return nil }
        let b1 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 5)
        let b2 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 6)
        return Double(Int(val[b1...b2], radix: 16)!) / 255.0
    }

    var opacityComponent: Double? {
        let val = description
        guard val.hasPrefix("#") else { return nil }
        let b1 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 7)
        let b2 = val.index(val.startIndex, offsetBy: 8)
        return Double(Int(val[b1...b2], radix: 16)!) / 255.0
    }
}