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An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

You're reading from   An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI Design and build beautiful apps quickly and easily with minimum code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813624
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Fadda Michele Fadda
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Simple Views FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Environment – Xcode, Playgrounds, and SwiftUI 3. Chapter 2: Adding Basic UI Elements and Designing Layouts 4. Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity to a SwiftUI View 5. Part 2: Scrollable Views
6. Chapter 4: Iterating Views, Scroll Views, FocusState, Lists, and Scroll View Reader 7. Chapter 5: The Art of Displaying Grids 8. Part 3: SwiftUI Navigation
9. Chapter 6: Tab Bars and Modal View Presentation 10. Chapter 7: All About Navigation 11. Part 4: Graphics and Animation
12. Chapter 8: Creating Custom Graphics 13. Chapter 9: An Introduction to Animations in SwiftUI 14. Part 5: App Architecture
15. Chapter 10: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part I: Practical Tools 16. Chapter 11: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part II – the Theory 17. Part 6: Beyond Basics
18. Chapter 12: Persistence with Core Data 19. Chapter 13: Modern Structured Concurrency 20. Chapter 14: An Introduction to SwiftData 21. Chapter 15: Consuming REST Services in SwiftUI 22. Chapter 16: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

An Introduction to Animations in SwiftUI

There are quite a few ways to animate content in SwiftUI. SwiftUI animations have a declarative syntax, meaning you describe what results you want to achieve, and SwiftUI does the heavy lifting. Animations in SwiftUI tend to be state-driven (i.e., they depend on state changes, making them reactive and easy to reason about).

SwiftUI provides pre-made modifiers such as animation, transition, and scaleEffect, which allow the effective application of animation effects to views. It is generally more straightforward than UIKit, as you don’t need to meddle with an imperative syntax or manage synchronization manually, nor do you need a deep understanding of layer properties.

SwiftUI offers a good balance of flexibility and control using implicit and explicit animations. In contrast, more complex custom animations can be achieved using animatable properties and modifiers, which will require additional effort.

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