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SwiftUI Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Juan C. Catalan
5 (1)
Book Image

SwiftUI Cookbook - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Juan C. Catalan

Overview of this book

SwiftUI is the modern way to build user interfaces for iOS, macOS, and watchOS. It provides a declarative and intuitive way to create beautiful and interactive user interfaces. The new edition of this comprehensive cookbook includes a fully updated repository for SwiftUI 5, iOS 17, Xcode 15, and Swift 5.9. With this arsenal, it teaches you everything you need to know to build beautiful and interactive user interfaces with SwiftUI 5, from the basics to advanced topics like custom modifiers, animations, and state management. In this new edition, you will dive into the world of creating powerful data visualizations with a new chapter on Swift Charts and how to seamlessly integrate charts into your SwiftUI apps. Further, you will be able to unleash your creativity with advanced controls, including multi-column tables and two-dimensional layouts. You can explore new modifiers for text, images, and shapes that give you more control over the appearance of your views. You will learn how to develop apps for multiple platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more. With expert insights, real-world examples, and a recipe-based approach, you’ll be equipped to build remarkable SwiftUI apps that stand out in today’s competitive market.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Displaying hierarchical content in expanding lists

An expanding list helps display hierarchical content in expandable sections. This expanding ability can be achieved by creating a struct that holds some information and an optional array of items. Let’s examine how expanding lists work by creating an app that displays the contents of a backpack.

Getting ready

Create a new SwiftUI project named ExpandingLists.

How to do it…

We’ll start by creating a Backpack struct that describes the properties of the data we want to display. The backpack will conform to the Identifiable protocol, and each backpack will have a name, an icon, an id, and some content of the Backpack type.

A struct that represents a backpack is good for demonstrating hierarchies because, in real life, you can put a backpack in another backpack. The steps for this recipe are as follows:

  1. At the top of our ContentView.swift file, before the ContentView struct, define the...