FigmaExport

Command line utility to export colors, icons and images from Figma to Xcode / Android Studio project.

• color - Figma's color style
• icon — Figma's component with small black vector image
• image — Figma's components with colorized image (Light/Dark)

Why we developed this utility:

• Figma doesn't support exporting colors and images to Xcode / Android Studio. Manual export takes a long time.
• For easy sync of the component library with the code

Features

• Export light & dark color palette directly to Xcode / Android studio project
• Export icons to Xcode / Android Studio project
• Export images to Xcode / Android Studio project

Result

iOS

Colors

When your execute figma-export colors command figma-export exports colors from Figma directly to your Xcode project to the Assets.xcassets folder.

Figma light	Figma dark	Xcode

Additionally the Color.swift file will be created to use colors from the code.

 import UIKit
 
 extension UIColor {
    static var backgroundSecondaryError: UIColor { return UIColor(named: #function)! }
    static var backgroundSecondarySuccess: UIColor { return UIColor(named: #function)! }
    static var backgroundVideo: UIColor { return UIColor(named: #function)! }
    ...
 }

Icons

Icons will be exported as PDF files with Template Image render mode.

Images

Images will be exported as PNG files the same way.

Android

Colors will be exported to values/colors.xml and values-night/colors.xml files.

Icons will be exported to drawable directory as vector xml files.

Images will be exported to drawable and drawable-night directory as vector xml files.

Installation

Manual

Download latest release and read Usage

CocoaPods + Fastlane

Add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'FigmaExport'

This will download the FigmaExport binaries and dependencies in Pods/ during your next pod install execution and will allow you to invoke it via Pods/FigmaExport/Release/figma-export in your Fastfile.

Add the following line to your Fastfile:

lane :sync_colors do
  Dir.chdir("../") do
    sh "Pods/FigmaExport/Release/figma-export colors ."
  end
end

Don't forget to place figma-export.yaml file at the root of the project directory.

Run fastlane sync_colors to run FigmaExport.

Usage

1. Open Terminal.app

2. Go (cd) to folder with figma-export file

3. Run figma-export

   To export colors use colors argument:

   ./figma-export colors -i figma-export.yaml

   To export icon use icons argument:

   ./figma-export icons -i figma-export.yaml

   To export images use images argument:

   ./figma-export images -i figma-export.yaml

Parameters

Argument -i or -input specifies path to figma-export.yaml file where all the properties stores: figma, ios, android.

If figma-export.yaml file is next to the figma-export executable file you can omit -i option.

./figma-export colors

Example of figma-export.yaml file:

---
figma:
  teamId: '717334107655123456'
  projectId: '3143123'
  lightFileId: shPilWnVdJfo10YFo12345
  darkFileId: KfF6DnJTWHGZzC9Nm12345

# [optional] Common export parameters
common:
  colors:
    # RegExp pattern for color name validation before exporting 
    nameValidateRegexp: '^[a-zA-Z_]+$' # RegExp pattern for: background, background_primary, widget_primary_background
  icons:
    # RegExp pattern for icon name validation before exporting 
    nameValidateRegexp: '^(ic)_(\d\d)_([a-z0-9_]+)$' # RegExp pattern for: ic_24_icon_name, ic_24_icon
  images:
    # RegExp pattern for image name validation before exporting
    nameValidateRegexp: '^(img)_([a-z0-9_]+)$' # RegExp pattern for: img_image_name

# [optional] iOS export parameters
ios:
  # Path to the Assets.xcassets directory
  xcassetsPath: "./Resources/Assets.xcassets"
  
  # Parameters for exporting colors
  colors:
    # Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where to place colors (.colorset directories)
    assetsFolder: Colors
    # Path to Color.swift file where to export colors for accessing colors from the code (e.g. UIColor.backgroundPrimary)
    colorSwift: "./Sources/Presentation/Common/Color.swift"
    # Color name style: camelCase or snake_case
    nameStyle: camelCase

  # Parameters for exporting icons
  icons:
    # Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where to place icons (.imageset directories)
    assetsFolder: Icons
    # Icon name style: camelCase or snake_case
    nameStyle: camelCase
    # [optional] Enable Preserve Vector Data for specified icons
    preservesVectorRepresentation:
    - ic24TabMain
    - ic24TabHistory
    - ic24TabProfile

  # Parameters for exporting images
  images:
      # Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where to place images (.imageset directories)
      assetsFolder: Illustrations
      # Image name style: camelCase or snake_case
      nameStyle: camelCase

# [optional] Android export parameters
android:
  mainRes: "./main/res"

Figma properties

You must provide Figma personal access token via environment variables. export FIGMA_PERSONAL_TOKEN=value This token gives you access to the Figma API. Generate a personal Access Token through your user profile page or on Figma API documentation website. If you use Fastlane just add the following line to fastlane/.env file FIGMA_PERSONAL_TOKEN=value

• figma.teamId — Id of the team. To obtain a team id, navigate to a team page of a team you are a part of. The team id will be present in the URL after the word team and before your team name.
• figma.projectId — Id of the project. To obtain a project id, navigate to a project page. The project id will be present in the URL after the word project and before the project name.
• figma.lightFileId — Id of the file containing light color palette and dark images. To obtain a file id, open the file. The file id will be present in the URL after the word file and before the file name.
• figma.darkFileId — (Optional) Id of the file containing dark color palette and dark images.

iOS properties

• ios.xcassetsPath — Relative or absolute path to directory Assets.xcassets where to export colors, icons and images.
• ios.colors.assetsFolder — Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where colors will be exported.
• ios.colors.colorSwift — Relative or absolute path to Color.swift file.
• ios.colors.nameStyle — Color name style: camelCase or snake_case
• ios.icons.assetsFolder — Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where icons will be exported.
• ios.icons.nameStyle — Icon name style: camelCase or snake_case
• ios.icons.preservesVectorRepresentation — An array of icon names that will supports Preseve Vecotor Data.
• ios.images.assetsFolder — Name of the folder inside Assets.xcassets where images will be exported.
• ios.images.nameStyle — Images name style: camelCase or snake_case  

Android properties

• android.path — Relative or absolute path to the main/res folder including it. The colors will be exported to ./values/colors.xml and ./values-night/colors.xml.

Design requirements

Common

If a color, icon or image is unique for iOS or Android platform, it should contains "ios" or "android" word in the description field in the properties. If a color, icon or image is used only by the designer and it should not be exported, the word "none" should be specified in the description field.

For figma-export colors

If you support dark mode your figma project must contains two files. One should contains a dark color palette, and the another light color palette. Names and number of the colors must matches.

Example

File	Styles

For figma-export icons

Your figma project must contains a file with Icons frame. If you support dark mode you must have two Figma files. Each must have Icons frame.

For figma-export images

Your figma project must contains a file with Illustrations frame. If you support dark mode you must have two Figma files. Each must have Illustrations frame.

Contributing

We'd love to accept your pull requests to this project.

License

figma-export is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

Feedback

If you have any issues with the FigmaExport or you want some new features feel free to create an issue or contact me.

Authors

Daniil Subbotin - [email protected]