Dealing with text

The most basic building block of any application is text, which we use to provide or request information from a user. Some text requires special treatment, such as password fields, which must be hidden.

In this recipe, we will implement different types of SwiftUI Text views. A Text view is used to display one or more lines of read-only text on the screen. A TextField view is used to display multiline editable text, and a SecureField view is used to request private information that should be hidden, such as passwords.

Getting ready

Create a new SwiftUI project named FormattedText.

How to do it…

We'll implement multiple types of text-related views and modifiers. Each step in this section applies minor changes to the view, so note the UI changes that occur after each step. Let's get started:

1. Enclose the initial ContentView text in a VStack:

   struct ContentView: View {
   var body: some View {
         &...