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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook A guide for building beautiful and interactive SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121732
Length 798 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Juan C. Catalan Juan C. Catalan
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls 2. Displaying Scrollable Content with Lists and Scroll Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Advanced Components 4. Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview in Xcode 15 5. Creating New Components and Grouping Views with Container Views 6. Presenting Views Modally 7. Navigation Containers 8. Drawing with SwiftUI 9. Animating with SwiftUI 10. Driving SwiftUI with Data 11. Driving SwiftUI with Combine 12. SwiftUI Concurrency with async await 13. Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 14. Persistence in SwiftUI with Core Data and SwiftData 15. Data Visualization with Swift Charts 16. Creating Multiplatform Apps with SwiftUI 17. SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Using @State to drive a View's behavior

As we mentioned in the introduction, when a state variable belongs only to a single view, its changes are bound to the components using the @State property wrapper.To understand this behavior, we are going to implement a simple to-do list app, where a static set of to-dos are changed to done when we tap on the row.In the next recipe, Using @Binding to pass a state variable to child Views, we'll expand on this recipe, adding the possibility of adding new to-dos.

Getting ready

Let's start this recipe by creating a SwiftUI app called StaticTodoList.

How to do it…

To demonstrate the use of the @State variable, we are going to create an app that holds its state in a list of Todo structs: each Todo can be either undone or done, and we can change its state by tapping on the related row.When the user taps on one row in the UI, they change the done state in the related Todo struct:

  1. Let's start by adding the basic Todo struct...
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