Customizing Stream Chat iOS/Swift App for a Unique Look: A Quick Start Guide
Blog post from Stream
The article provides a comprehensive guide on customizing a Stream Chat iOS app using the UIKit framework, focusing on altering colors, fonts, and icons to align with brand styles and design assets. It covers basic customization techniques through the Appearance object, which allows changes to visual settings such as colors, typographic styles, and system-defined icons, as well as more advanced methods like view injection for complex customizations. The article also explains how to override the system tint color using the SceneDelegate.swift file, and how to implement custom fonts and replace default icons with SF Symbols or Google Material icons. The tutorial emphasizes starting with a new iOS project in Xcode, fetching the Stream iOS SDK from GitHub, and utilizing the applyChatCustomizations function to unify all customizations. The article concludes by encouraging readers to explore more advanced theming options and reminding them to sign up for a Stream account if they haven't already.