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An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

You're reading from   An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI Design and build beautiful apps quickly and easily with minimum code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813624
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Fadda Michele Fadda
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Simple Views
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Environment – Xcode, Playgrounds, and SwiftUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Adding Basic UI Elements and Designing Layouts 4. Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity to a SwiftUI View 5. Part 2: Scrollable Views
6. Chapter 4: Iterating Views, Scroll Views, FocusState, Lists, and Scroll View Reader 7. Chapter 5: The Art of Displaying Grids 8. Part 3: SwiftUI Navigation
9. Chapter 6: Tab Bars and Modal View Presentation 10. Chapter 7: All About Navigation 11. Part 4: Graphics and Animation
12. Chapter 8: Creating Custom Graphics 13. Chapter 9: An Introduction to Animations in SwiftUI 14. Part 5: App Architecture
15. Chapter 10: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part I: Practical Tools 16. Chapter 11: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part II – the Theory 17. Part 6: Beyond Basics
18. Chapter 12: Persistence with Core Data 19. Chapter 13: Modern Structured Concurrency 20. Chapter 14: An Introduction to SwiftData 21. Chapter 15: Consuming REST Services in SwiftUI 22. Chapter 16: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating custom modifiers

Whenever we need to style multiple screens with a similar look, which we can obtain by applying several modifiers, we usually don’t want to apply the modifiers to all the views we have to design.

We would want to just apply a single modifier, to a view or another modifier, producing all the changes we need simultaneously.

We could, of course, design a single view and repeat it through the entirety of our application, but let’s imagine that the views are different, with different content, but we would still like to style all of them in a similar way, without repeating code.

In SwiftUI, we can create custom modifiers to encapsulate styling or behavior across an entire app. Remember that SwiftUI takes a functional approach – modifiers are composable and can be applied to a view or another modifier, producing a new version of the original input value.

In order to create a custom modifier, you just need to conform to the ViewModifier...

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