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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)

Animating Strokes around Shapes

In this project, we will take three images, create outlines around them, and then animate strokes along those outlines. A stroke is a line that follows the outline (or contours) of a shape, which we can give any color and thickness and animate to move around the image.

To do this, you’ll learn how to convert bitmap images into vector images using the Inkscape software, and then take those vectors and convert them into Swift code using Sketch and Kite. We will then insert this code back into Xcode so that we can start animating our project.

The following are the objectives for this project:

  • Converting images into Swift code
  • Animating images with the stroke modifier