Understanding and implementing views

In this section, we will look at views and how we can implement them in SwiftUI. We will also take a look at combining these views.

Views are the fundamental building blocks of an application’s user interface. A view object renders content within its rectangle bounds and handles any interactions with that content.

In the following sections, we will show the source code and examples for each type of view. If you would like further information, visit Apple’s documentation at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/views_and_controls.

What are text views?

It is very common to need to display text in our app, and we do this by using a text view, which draws a string. By default, it has a font assigned to it that is best for the platform it is being displayed on; however, you can change the font using the font(_:) view modifier.

The following snippet shows the code used to implement a text view:

var body: some...