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SwiftUI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giordano Scalzo, Edgar Nzokwe
Book Image

SwiftUI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Giordano Scalzo, Edgar Nzokwe

Overview of this book

SwiftUI provides an innovative and simple way to build beautiful user interfaces (UIs) for all Apple platforms, from iOS and macOS through to watchOS and tvOS, using the Swift programming language. In this recipe-based cookbook, you’ll cover the foundations of SwiftUI as well as the new SwiftUI 3 features introduced in iOS 15 and explore a range of essential techniques and concepts that will help you through the development process. The cookbook begins by explaining how to use basic SwiftUI components. Once you’ve learned the core concepts of UI development, such as Views, Controls, Lists, and ScrollViews, using practical implementations in Swift, you'll advance to adding useful features to SwiftUI using drawings, built-in shapes, animations, and transitions. You’ll understand how to integrate SwiftUI with exciting new components in the Apple development ecosystem, such as Combine for managing events and Core Data for managing app data. Finally, you’ll write iOS, macOS, and watchOS apps by sharing the same SwiftUI codebase. By the end of this SwiftUI book, you'll have discovered a range of simple, direct solutions to common problems encountered when building SwiftUI apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Simple graphics using SF Symbols

The SF Symbols provides a set of over 3,200 free consistent and highly configurable symbols.

You can download and browse through a list of SF symbols using the macOS app available for download here: https://devimages-cdn.apple.com/design/resources/download/SF-Symbols-3.dmg.

In this recipe, we will use SF symbols in labels and images. We'll also apply various modifiers that will add a punch to your design.

Getting ready

Let's start by creating a new SwiftUI project called UsingSFSymbols.

How to do it…

Let's create an app where we use different combinations of SF Symbols and modifiers. The steps are given here:

  1. Open the ContentView.swift file and replace the initial Text view with a VStack, HStack, and some SF Symbols:
            VStack {
                HStack{
            ...