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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

Using @Binding to pass a state variable to child Views

In the previous recipe, Using @State to drive Views behavior, you saw how to use an @State variable to change a UI. But what if we want to have another view that changes that @State variable?

Given that an array has a value-type semantic, if we pass down the variable, Swift creates a copy whose changes are not reflected in the original.

SwiftUI solves this with the @Binding property wrapper, which, in a certain way, creates a reference semantic for specific structs.

To explore this mechanism, we are going to create an extension to the TodoApp we created in the previous recipe, Using @State to drive Views behavior, where we are going to add a child view that allows the addition of a new to-do to the list.

Getting ready

The starting point for this project is the final code of the previous recipe, so you could use the same StaticTodoApp project.

If you want to keep the recipes separate, you can create a new SwiftUI...

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