Rotating Views Along Any Axis in SwiftUI
Animations in your UI are a must these days, but everyone is doing the same old fade or move animations. If you really want to take your animations to the next level you need to incorporate some rotation.
Using Transitions in SwiftUI
Views in SwiftUI can be added to and removed from other views easily by checking a state property. When views are added or removed using just a normal bool check they are automatically given a fade in/out transition by default. That’s great for a lot of cases, but what if you want to do something different, like show a message coming in from the top?
Showing an Alert with SwiftUI
Showing an alert is a great way to notify a user of important information related to your app such as a payment going through or an error loading something from the server. In SwiftUI Apple has added a modifier that makes it super easy to show an alert based off your view’s state.
Horizontal Scrolling in SwiftUI
Lists are great for displaying vertically scrolling collections of data. But what if you want something that scrolls horizontally? There isn’t a fully native SwiftUI version of UICollectionView yet, so for the time being you have to get a little creative using a combination of ScrollView and HStack.
Creating a Button Animation in SwiftUI
Today we’re going to look at how to create a quick and easy animation for a button that scales and fades out when you tap on it.
Easy to Use Cell Reuse Extensions
Learn how to use protocols and extensions to make dequeueing cells super easy and optional free.
How to Make Custom List Rows
A best practice in SwiftUI architecture is to break views down into smaller components that you combine together to build more complex views. Learn how to do just that by building custom List rows in this tutorial!
How to Set the Background Color in SwiftUI
It took me longer than I’d care to admit to figure out how to set the background color for a full screen view in SwiftUI. Read on to avoid my mistakes and learn how to quickly and easily set the background color for your views!
How to Update Text Using a TextField in SwiftUI
Being able to enter text into an app is essential. In this short tutorial you’ll learn how to create a TextField
, bind it to a value, and update its style so you can give your users a way to enter text in your apps.
Using dropLast and removeLast in Swift
Learn how to use dropLast and removeLast to manipulate arrays in Swift.
How to Select a Date with DatePicker in SwiftUI
If you need to give your users a way to pick a date and time (say, for creating a calendar entry) then read on to learn how to use a DatePicker to do just that.
How to Push a Detail View Using NavigationLink
By far the most common navigation pattern in iOS apps is when you tap a button and it pushes a new view in. But how do you do that in SwiftUI?
Sliders in SwiftUI
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to set up a Slider that controls the corner radius of a RoundedRectangle.
Steppers in SwiftUI
Steppers are really useful if you want to give a user +/- buttons to change a specific value like volume, font size, etc.
Let’s take a look at how to use a Stepper to update the font size of some Text in SwiftUI.
How to Use a Toggle in SwiftUI
Want some type of control to switch between on/off? That’s exactly what Toggle does in SwiftUI! Learn how to add one to your views in this tutorial.
Creating a Segmented Control in SwiftUI
Learn how to create a segmented control in SwiftUI!
Updating Your View for Dark Mode in SwiftUI
I don’t know about you, but I use dark mode on everything. Well, everything that supports it at least! And by the end of this post you’ll have everything you need to update your SwiftUI views to support dark mode.
Creating a Repeating Animation in SwiftUI
SwiftUI is so amazing because of how much it takes care of for you. When you update the state your view updates automatically. Throw a call to withAnimation
in there and it will even animate the changes! But what if you want an animation that repeats?
How to Layer Views in SwiftUI Using ZStack
One of the first things I wondered when I started messing with SwiftUI was how am I supposed to build layered views? Every example I came across talked about horizontal stacks, vertical stacks, and lists. But what if I wanted to put text on top of another view? Then I found the answer…
ZStacks.