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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift 2.0 Improving Our User Interface Changing the Background Color

setting background doesn't work

Im at this question where I'm trying to set the background and it isn't working for some reason

colors.swift
class ViewController: UIViewController {



        let blueColor = UIColor(red: 90/255.0, green: 187/255.0, blue: 181/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
    override func viewDidLoad() {
   view.backgroundColor = blueColor
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated
    }

}

1 Answer

Reed Carson
Reed Carson
8,306 Points

In part one it wanted you to set the value of blueColor to a specific value. either 0/0/255/1 or just ".blueColor().

Change your blueColor var to equal UIColor.blueColor() and it will pass.

the code is sound, just missing specific details of the challenge.

It shouldn't have let you pass the first part, the code challenges are finicky