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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?

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Responding to Keyboard Presentation/Dismissal in Swift

Nearly all iOS apps need to accept input from the user at some point. The problem is the keyboard presents from the bottom of the screen, on top of everything, which can cover up some of your content (or worse, the text field where the user is typing!) In these situations it’s important to respond to the keyboard entering/exiting the screen so you can move your content up into view.

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Working with Dates in Swift

It’s inevitable that at some point in your development career you’ll need to work with dates. Maybe you’re showing a feed of posts à la Facebook, or the upcoming schedule of your favorite sports team. While dates are easy conceptually, they aren’t so easy when you’re writing code for formatting and displaying them.

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