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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)

To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book, a working knowledge of the Swift programming language is required. Knowledge of the fundamentals of SwiftUI is helpful, but not required.

You will also need a Mac computer and have downloaded the free software, Xcode (Xcode runs well on most versions of macOS, so it should work with the version you have).

We will build our projects for iOS devices.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

If you prefer to learn through video tutorials, I recommend my Swift and SwiftUI courses over at udemy.com. Other highly recommended resources that can help to build your coding skills fast are Paul Hudson’s works at hackingwithswift.com, and J.D. Gauchat’s SwiftUI for Masterminds book.