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SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Do you want to create iOS apps with SwiftUI, Xcode 12, and Swift 5.3, and want to publish it on the app store? This book helps you achieve these skills with a step-by-step approach. This course first walks you through the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment together and introduces Swift Playgrounds to learn and experiment with Swift—specifically, the Swift 5.3 programming language. After establishing key concepts of SwiftUI and project architecture, this course provides a guided tour of Xcode in SwiftUI development mode. The book also covers the creation of custom SwiftUI views and explains how these views are combined to create user interface layouts, including the use of stacks, frames, and forms. One of the more important skills you’ll learn is how to integrate SwiftUI views into existing UIKit-based projects and explain the integration of UIKit code into SwiftUI. Finally, the book explains how to package up a completed app and upload it to the app store for publication. Along the way, the topics covered in the book are put into practice through detailed tutorials, the source code for which is also available for download. By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own apps for iOS 14 using SwiftUI and publish it on the app store. The code files for the book can be found here: https://www.ebookfrenzy.com/retail/swiftui-ios14/
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
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Index

20.12 Working with the Label View

The Label view is different from most other SwiftUI views in that it comprises two elements in the form of an icon and text positioned side-by-side. The image can take the form of any image asset, a SwiftUI Shape rendering or an SF Symbol.

SF Symbols is a collection of over 1500 scalable vector drawings available for use when developing apps for Apple platforms and designed to complement Apple’s San Francisco system font.

The full set of symbols can be searched and browsed by installing the SF Symbols macOS app available from the following URL:

https://developer.apple.com/design/downloads/SF-Symbols.dmg

The following is an example of the Label view using an SF Symbol together with a font() modifier to increase the size of the icon and text:

Label("Welcome to SwiftUI", systemImage: "person.circle.fill")

    .font(.largeTitle)

The above view will be rendered as shown in Figure 20-6 below...