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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)

Using custom fonts in SwiftUI

iOS comes with many preinstalled fonts that can be safely used in SwiftUI. However, the design sometimes needs some custom fonts because they might be a part of the brand of the app maker, for example.

In this recipe, we'll see how to import a couple of custom fonts to use for building a menu page of an Italian restaurant.

Getting ready

Create a SwiftUI app called RestaurantMenu.

Copy the Sacramento, Oleo Script Regular, and Oleo Script Bold custom fonts, which you can find in the repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/SwiftUI-Cookbook-2nd-Edition/tree/main/Resources/Chapter15/recipe5.

The fonts must be added to the project:

Figure 15.16 – Custom fonts in the project

Finally, the fonts must be copied during the installation, so add them in the Copy Bundle Resources phase:

Figure 15.17 – Copying fonts during the installation

How to do it…

Besides the...