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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

35.4 Drawing Custom Paths and Shapes

The shapes used so far in this chapter are essentially structure objects that conform to the Shape protocol. To conform with the shape protocol, a structure must implement a function named path() which accepts a rectangle in the form of a CGRect value and returns a Path object that defines what is to be drawn in that rectangle.

A Path instance provides the outline of a 2D shape by specifying coordinate points and defining the lines drawn between those points. Lines between points in a path can be drawn using straight lines, cubic and quadratic Bézier curves, arcs, ellipses and rectangles.

In addition to being used in a custom shape implementation, paths may also be drawn directly within a view. Try modifying the ContentView.swift file so that it reads as follows:

struct ContentView: View {

    var body: some View {

        Path { path in

    &...