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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)

Summary

In this project, we learned about RGB colors, switch statements, implementing a Picker view, adding a Slider view, and creating a reset function, as well as using Swift packages to import pre-built code into our project.

Play around with the code, and think of ways that you can take the game further. For example, maybe you want to play a sound effect when a perfect score is reached, such as a “pop” sound, or maybe you want to display the score on a label in the UI rather than having to click a button to check it. There are many different things that you can do to add more fun to the project.

The next chapter will look at some advanced animations we can create by integrating the SpriteKit framework into our SwiftUI projects. SpriteKit gives us a particle system that creates all kinds of very realistic effects and animations that you can use in your projects.