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SwiftUI Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Juan C. Catalan
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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

Implementing a swipeable stack of cards in SwiftUI

Every now and then, an app solves a common problem in such an elegant and peculiar way that it becomes a sort of de facto way to do it in other apps as well. I am referring to a pattern such as pull to refresh, which started in the Twitter app and then became part of iOS itself.

A few years ago, Tinder introduced the pattern of swipeable cards to solve the problem of indicating which cards we like and which we dislike, in a list of cards. From then on, countless apps have applied the same visual pattern, not just in the dating sector but in every sector that needed a way to make a match between different users, including anything from business purposes, such as coupling mentors and mentees, to indicating which clothes we like for a fashion e-commerce app.

In this recipe, we are going to implement a bare-bones version of Tinder’s swipeable stack of cards.

Getting ready

This recipe doesn’t need any external...