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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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Understanding State in SwiftUI

Building pretty looking views is super easy with SwiftUI, but apps need to be more than just something nice to look at. Apps need to do things, then give the user feedback by updating the UI accordingly. With SwiftUI in order to update a View you need to change its state.

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Setting SwiftUI Modifiers With the Attributes Inspector

The Attributes Inspector is one of the things that makes SwiftUI such a huge leap forward in building interfaces for apps. Without having to write any code you can use the Attributes Inspector to move Views around, set properties such as font and color, add accessibility identifiers, etc. 🤯

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Fonts in SwiftUI

Using custom fonts helps your app stand out in the sea of apps on the App Store. Read on to find out how you can set your app apart with custom fonts in SwiftUI!

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