In WWDC 21, one of the announcements that caught my attention was the massive changes of Swift Playgrounds. Not only can you learn Swift using Playgrounds, the new update allows developers to create apps entirely on iPad and submit them to App Store directly....
It is very common that you need to display web content in your apps. The iOS SDK provides three options for developers to show web content: Mobile Safari, WKWebView, and SFSafariViewController. In iOS 14 (or later), the SwiftUI framework provides a view...
Whether you’re creating a social media app or a productivity tool, the tab bar interface can enhance the user experience by making it more intuitive and user-friendly. With SwiftUI’s TabView, creating a seamless and...
Since the release of iOS 16, it’s easy to create an interactive bottom sheet using SwiftUI. All you need to do is to embed a modifier called presentationDetents in a Sheet view. Earlier, we published a detailed tutorial to...
The SwiftUI framework comes with a built-in checkbox, but it’s only available on the macOS platform. If you want to use checkboxes on iOS, you have to build your own component. Previously, we’ve covered ToggleStyle to...
Toggle in SwiftUI is one of the most used views that it allows users to switch between two states, either on or off. This control is a great way to provide a simple and intuitive interface for your users, making it a popular...
So, what’s QR code? I believe most of you know what a QR code is. In case you haven’t heard of it, just take a look at the above image – that’s a QR code. QR (short for Quick Response) code is a kind of...
In iOS development, navigation view is definitely one of the most commonly used components. When SwiftUI was first released, it came with a view called NavigationView for developers to build navigation-based user interfaces. With...
Starting from iOS 16, SwiftUI provides AnyLayout and the Layout protocol for developers to create customized and complex layouts. AnyLayout is a type-erased instance of the layout protocol. You can use AnyLayout to create a...
As you know, Apple released Xcode 14 and iOS 16, along with the debut of iPhone 14. Now our Mastering SwiftUI book is updated to support the latest version of iOS and Xcode. All the content including screenshots and...
In iOS 16, SwiftUI introduces a new view called Gauge for displaying progress. You can actually use it to show values within a range. In this tutorial, let’s see how to use the Gauge view and work with different gauge...
In iOS 16, other than introducing the new NavigationStack, Apple also released a new view container named NavigationSplitView for developers to create two or three column navigation interface. If you want to build UI similar to...