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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981860
Length 614 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edgar Nzokwe Edgar Nzokwe
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls 2. Chapter 2: Going Beyond the Single Component with Lists and Scroll Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview 4. Chapter 4: Creating New Components and Grouping Views in Container Views 5. Chapter 5: Presenting Extra Information to the User 6. Chapter 6: Drawing with SwiftUI 7. Chapter 7: Animating with SwiftUI 8. Chapter 8: Driving SwiftUI with Data 9. Chapter 9: Driving SwiftUI with Combine 10. Chapter 10: Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 11. Chapter 11: Handling Core Data in SwiftUI 12. Chapter 12: Cross-Platform SwiftUI 13. Chapter 13: SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Filling a border with an image

We know that filling a border with color is pretty easy, but what about an image?

It turns out that, like gradients in the Rendering a border with a gradient recipe, using an image for styling a stroke is straightforward.

Getting ready

We are going to use an image to fill the border, and you can either use JesterBackground, provided for you in the GitHub repo in the Resources folder (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/SwiftUI-Cookbook/blob/master/Resources/Chapter06/recipe10/JesterBackground.png), or add one of your choice.

Create a SwiftUI project called ImageBorderApp and add the image to the Assets folder.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we are going to render a simple Circle and add an image in the strokeBorder() modifier:

  1. Let's add Circle inside the body of the ContentView struct and make it central on the screen with some padding:
    struct ContentView: View {
        var body: some View {
      ...
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