Displaying popovers

A popover is a view that can be displayed onscreen to provide more information about a particular item. It includes an arrow pointing to the location where it originates from. You can tap on any other screen area to dismiss the popover. Popovers are typically used on larger screens such as on the iPad.

In this recipe, we will create and display a popover on an iPad.

Getting ready

Create a new SwiftUI project named DisplayingPopovers.

How to do it…

Following the pattern we’ve used so far in this chapter, we will first create a @State variable whose value triggers the displaying or hiding of a popover. Then we will add a .popover() modifier that displays the popover when the @State variable is true. The steps are as follows:

1. Just above the body variable in the ContentView.swift file, add a @State variable that will be used to trigger the display of the popover:

   @State private var showPopover = false
   

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