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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook A guide for building beautiful and interactive SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121732
Length 798 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Juan C. Catalan Juan C. Catalan
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls FREE CHAPTER 2. Displaying Scrollable Content with Lists and Scroll Views 3. Exploring Advanced Components 4. Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview in Xcode 15 5. Creating New Components and Grouping Views with Container Views 6. Presenting Views Modally 7. Navigation Containers 8. Drawing with SwiftUI 9. Animating with SwiftUI 10. Driving SwiftUI with Data 11. Driving SwiftUI with Combine 12. SwiftUI Concurrency with async await 13. Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 14. Persistence in SwiftUI with Core Data and SwiftData 15. Data Visualization with Swift Charts 16. Creating Multiplatform Apps with SwiftUI 17. SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Using @Binding to pass a state variable to child Views

In the Using @State to drive a View's behavior recipe, 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 of the variable, and if the variable is mutated, 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 of the TodoList app that we created in the Using @State to drive a View's behavior recipe, where we are going to add a child view that allows us to add 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 can use the same StaticTodoList project you used previously.If you want to keep the recipes...

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