4.7 Working with SwiftUI and Live View in Playgrounds

In addition to allowing you to experiment with the Swift programming language, playgrounds may also be used to work with SwiftUI. Not only does this allow SwiftUI views to be prototyped, but when combined with the playground live view feature, it is also possible to run and interact with those views.

To try out SwiftUI and live view, begin by selecting the newly added SwiftUI Example page and modifying it to import both the SwiftUI and PlaygroundSupport frameworks:

import SwiftUI

import PlaygroundSupport

The PlaygroundSupport module provides a number of useful features for playgrounds including the ability to present a live view within the playground timeline.

Beneath the import statements, add the following code (rest assured, all of the techniques used in this example will be thoroughly explained in later chapters):

struct ExampleView: View {

    

    var body: some...