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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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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

Presenting views with NavigationLink (pre-iOS 16)

NavigationView is a container that wraps the contents of various views, preparing them for navigation. NavigationLink performs the task of designating which content to navigate to and providing the user with a UI component to initiate the navigation process.

NavigationLink in SwiftUI allows pushing a new destination view. You can use NavigationLink in a list or decide to push a view programmatically. The latter enables you to trigger a new screen from a different location in your view.

In this case, the user needs to tap on the link.

The next code example illustrates using NavigationLink to push a simple Text view on the stack:

import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
    fileprivate func Destination() -> Text {
        return Text("This is the destination View")
    }
    var body: some View {
  &...
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