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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)

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “He is very thorough as well, and you can find his work at jdgauchat.com.”

A block of code is set as follows:

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            Text(“Hello”)
            Spacer()

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

struct ContentView: View {
   var body: some View {
       VStack(alignment: .leading)  {
      Text(“Hi, I’m child one in this vertical stack”)
      Text(“Hi, I’m child two in this vertical stack”)

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “We will be using the first option, which is Create a new Xcode project, for all of our projects, so select that.”

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