Disable #imageLiteral(resourceName: <..>) preview in Xcode?

Question

I found image literals to be rather distracting than useful.
Is there any way to disable this Xcode feature?

Answer 1

A good method for this is to replace all occurrences of #imageLiteral with UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName:) initializers (thanks for the suggestion, @D6mi!). Here's how you can do it automatically:

1. Navigate to Find/Find and Replace... (or press ⌥⌘F).

2. Open the dropdown list on the right side and select Regular Expression.

3. For the search term, enter the following regex:

   #imageLiteral\(resourceName: (.*)\)
   

   For the replacement, enter this:

   UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: $1)
   

   This regular expression captures the value of the resource name with (.*) and inserts it again with $1. The backslashes are for escaping the parentheses, since they count as special characters.

^{Note that you don't have to use regular expression in this case (as LinusGeffarth pointed out), but it can be more useful in more complex cases than this.}