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Animating SwiftUI Applications

By : Stephen DeStefano
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Animating SwiftUI Applications

By: Stephen DeStefano

Overview of this book

Swift and SwiftUI are the backbone of Apple application development, making them a crucial skill set to learn. Animating SwiftUI Applications focuses on the creation of stunning animations, making you proficient in this declarative language and employing a minimal code approach. In this book, you'll start by exploring the fundamentals of SwiftUI and animation, before jumping into various projects that will cement these skills in practice. You will explore some simple projects, like animating circles, creating color spectrums with hueRotation, animating individual parts of an image, as well as combining multiple views together to produce dynamic creations. The book will then transition into more advanced animation projects that employ the GeometryReader, which helps align your animations across different devices, as well as creating word and color games. Finally, you will learn how to integrate the SpriteKit framework into our SwiftUI code to create scenes with wind, fire, rain, and or snow scene, along with adding physics, gravity, collisions, and particle emitters to your animations. By the end of this book, you’ll have created a number of different animation projects, and will have gained a deep understanding of SwiftUI that can be used for your own creations.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Adding the background, a button, and animating the doors

Let’s continue and start to fill out ContentView so that we can see the elevator, and then we can animate things.

First, we will add a black background to the whole scene. To do this, add a constant at the top just after the appData variable to hold some color:

let backgroundColor = Color(UIColor.black)

Next, inside the body property, let’s add ZStack and call our backgroundColor constant, setting the color for the screen:

var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            backgroundColor.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
               }

Now, we will need to call the ElevatorAndPeople view so that we can make it visible in this file. Add the following code, still working inside ZStack, and in fact, all subsequent code we add into...