In today's fragmented digital landscape, ensuring consistency across different platforms is more crucial than ever. Recognizing this, our team took on the challenge of shipping color tokens for iOS and Android platforms. 🚀
🎨 What Are Color Tokens?
For those unfamiliar, color tokens are named entities that store color values. Rather than using direct color codes in design and code, these tokens act as references, ensuring consistency and easing future updates. 🔗
🔄 The Process:
Here's how we went about it:
- Defining the Palette 🌈: Our journey began with meticulously selecting a color palette that resonated with our brand's identity and values.
- Integration with Tokens Studio for Figma 🎨: Using Tokens Studio, we were able to efficiently define, name, and categorize our color choices. The robust naming convention based on categories, properties, variants, and modifiers made it a breeze to manage these tokens.
- Export & Integration 📤📥: With our color tokens defined, they were exported as JSON files. These files were then pushed to our mono repo, ensuring that developers, irrespective of platform, had access to the same color values.
- Implementation 🔧: On the development end, these JSON files were used to generate platform-specific resources. For iOS, this meant generating color sets for use in Xcode, while for Android, XML color resources were created.
🌟 The Outcome:
Shipping color tokens for both platforms had multiple benefits:
- Consistency Across Platforms 🌍: With iOS and Android utilizing the same color tokens, we ensured a uniform visual experience for our users, irrespective of their device.
- Efficient Updates ⚙️: Any future changes to our color palette would now require an update in just one place - the token. This change would cascade to both platforms, saving time and eliminating discrepancies.
- Empowered Developers 💪: With a centralized color system, developers could focus on building functionalities without being bogged down by design inconsistencies.
Shipping color tokens for iOS and Android has laid a strong foundation for a harmonious cross-platform user experience. It's a testament to our commitment to delivering the best to our users, irrespective of the platform they're on. 🎉🌐