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Learn SwiftUI

You're reading from   Learn SwiftUI An introductory guide to creating intuitive cross-platform user interfaces using Swift 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215421
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chris Barker Chris Barker
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with SwiftUI 2. Understanding Declarative Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Layout and Structure 4. Creating Your First Application 5. Understanding Controls, Views, and Lists 6. Working with Navigation in SwiftUI 7. Creating a Form with States and Data Binding 8. Networking and Linking to Your Existing App Logic 9. Maps and Location Services 10. Updating for iPad with NavigationViewStyle 11. SwiftUI on watchOS 12. SwiftUI versus UIKit 13. Basic Animation in Views 14. Animations in Transitions 15. Testing in SwiftUI 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we started by changing the style of our Text View by using pre-defined font styles that are available to us through SwiftUI. Using our fonts in this way allows us to easily keep a consistent look throughout the app, with very little effort. Next, we looked at how to add color and how to amend the weight of our Text with the use of modifiers. From this, we added another Text View and saw that by using a VStack, we could obtain our desired look.

In order to preview our data without the need to launch the app in the simulator, we updated PreviewProvider with mock data, thus allowing us to easily identify how our View would look and feel.

After we added text to each row in our List View, we extracted this in order to make it reusable throughout the app. This is an important subject in app development, as some Views can easily become either very complex or...

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