How to show alerts in swiftUI-Tutorial In our application we show alerts to users to provide some kind of information about the action they have taken. SwiftUI provides simple and direct way of showing alert to users. With iOS 15 it became even easier. In this tutorial we will show you how to setup alerts… Read More »
Sometimes we need to display basic shapes in our apps just to get more attractive UI or just to highlight something. SwiftUI has several build in shapes to help the user to ease the development. It has several built-in shapes such as rectangles, circles, and capsules, each of which can be created, color, and positioned… Read More »
Playing movie or videos from any source is important when it comes to application development. Apple provides some default frameworks to handle it. SwiftUI’s VideoPlayer view lets us playback movies from any URL, local or remote. It comes from the AVKit framework, this can be added to the framework by importing AVKit. The below example shows how… Read More »
SFSymbols are one of the best feature provided by apple to the developers. It provides vast list of icons that can be scaled and modified as per our need. These images provides consistency across our all screens and apps without any additional effort. SwiftUI’s Image view helps us to load over 2500 SF symbols without… Read More »
In SwiftUI we can render images in different ways. SwiftUI can load images from bundle, from system icons, from a UIImage and many more. Among all these are the most common methods that we use. If you are using Xcode 15 or later, you can load image from application bundle and display it in an… Read More »
Normally when user tap on url shown inside a SwiftUI Text or Link view, it opens in Safari by default. However we can customize that behavior by replacing the openURL environment key. We can either handle the link entirely or perhaps pass it back to the system to open once your custom action completes. In… Read More »
Quite often, while dealing with text contents, we come across questions like ‘how to render mark down content in text?’ SwiftUI has built-in support for rendering Markdown, including bold, italic, links, and more. It’s literally built right into SwiftUI’s Text view, so you can write code like this: The link is tappable and it will be ind… Read More »
SwiftUI lets us mark some parts of our view as containing sensitive information, which in practice allows us to hide or show it more easily using redaction. To use this feature in your code, first add the privacySensitive() modifier to any views that should be hidden, then apply the .redacted(reason: .privacy) modifier at a higher place in your view… Read More »
In our view we can mark a text as placeholder, meaning that it gets rendered but masked out with gray to show it isn’t final content. This is provided through the redacted(reason:) modifier, along with an unredacted() modifier you can use to override redaction as needed You can redact several things in your view at once, just by using redacted(reason:) on… Read More »
From iOS 13 onwards apple has introduced text formatting API named ‘Format’ and it is capable of showing dates, arrays and measurements and more. If you use the .list() format type with an array of strings, you can get neatly formatted lists such as “Jay, Modi, and Webber”. For example, this will print ingredients lists correctly no… Read More »
In our previous post we talked about styling swiftUI text views with fonts, colors, line spacing and more. This time we will look deep into ‘AttributedString’. SwiftUI’s ‘Text’ view is able to render more advanced strings created using ‘AttributedString’ struct. This includes adding underlines, strike through, web links, background colours etc. We will show you… Read More »
Button In SwiftUI, you can create a button using the Button view. Here’s how you can create a simple button in SwiftUI for iOS: Preview: In the above code: 1. We create a `Button` view with an `action` closure that specifies what should happen when the button is tapped. 2. Inside the button, we provide… Read More »
In SwiftUI there is not much options to load web page. We have to use UIKit component to load a page. For this purpose we need to use MKWebView and it is not a standard component in SwiftUI for loading web content. However, you can achieve this by using WKWebView in SwiftUI. Here is a… Read More »
AsyncImage is a component introduced in SwiftUI to handle the loading and displaying of remote images asynchronously. It simplifies the process of fetching images from the web, handling the loading state, and displaying a placeholder until the image is ready. Here’s a detailed breakdown of how AsyncImage works, its customisation options, and usage examples. Basic… Read More »
In Swift, inout is a keyword used to indicate that a parameter is passed by reference and can be modified inside a function, affecting the original value outside the function. This allows a function to modify the value of the parameter and have those changes reflected in the calling scope. Here’s an example to illustrate… Read More »
In SwiftUI, you can create a path with a custom shape by using the Path and Shape types. Here’s a basic example of how to create a custom path with a shape in SwiftUI: In this example: You can modify the path(in:) function to create different custom shapes based on your requirements. SwiftUI provides a… Read More »
In Swift, BlockOperation is a subclass of Operation that allows you to encapsulate the code you want to execute concurrently. You can use it to create operations that consist of one or more blocks of code. Here’s an example of how to use BlockOperation: In this example: The OperationQueue takes care of managing the concurrent… Read More »
In iOS development with Swift, self and Self have distinct meanings and use cases. In the printValue method, self is used to explicitly refer to the value property of the current instance. 2. Self: In this example, Self is used as the return type of the createInstance method. It indicates that the method will return… Read More »
In SwiftUI, navigation is typically handled using the NavigationView and related components. Here’s a basic guide on how to perform navigation in SwiftUI: Basic Navigation with NavigationLink: 2. Creating NavigationLinks: 3. Creating the Destination View: 4. Putting it All Together: Passing Data with NavigationLink: 2. Receiving Data in Destination View:In the destination view, define a… Read More »
UIKit and SwiftUI are both UI frameworks used in iOS development, but they differ significantly in terms of design, architecture, and development approach. Here are some key differences between UIKit and SwiftUI: 1. Declarative vs Imperative 2. UI Layout 3. Code re-usability 4. Live preview 5. UI Representation 6. State management 7. Adoption and Legacy… Read More »
In SwiftUI, you can pass data from one view to another using the @State, @Binding, @ObservedObject, or @EnvironmentObject property wrappers. The appropriate choice depends on the nature of the data and the relationship between the views. Below are brief explanations and examples for each approach: 1. @State : Use @State to store simple values within… Read More »