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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

35.2 SwiftUI Shapes

SwiftUI includes a set of five pre-defined shapes that conform to the Shape protocol which can be used to draw circles, rectangles, rounded rectangles and ellipses. Within the DrawDemo project, open the ContentView.swift file and add a single rectangle:

struct ContentView: View {

    var body: some View {

     Rectangle()

}

By default, a shape will occupy all the space available to it within the containing view and will be filled with the foreground color of the parent view (by default this will be black). Within the preview canvas, a black rectangle will fill the entire safe area of the screen.

The color and size of the shape may be adjusted using the fill() modifier and by wrapping it in a frame. Delete the Rectangle view and replace it with the declaration which draws a red filled 200x200 circle:

Circle()

    .fill(Color.red)

    .frame(width: 200, height...