Using SwiftUI and WidgetKit to Make Your App Content Indispensable
By using a combination of SwiftUI and WidgetKit, you can increase the visibility of your app’s content and enhance the user experience by placing one or more “widgets” on the user’s iOS Home screen, macOS...
SwiftUI: How to Display Web Page Using WKWebView
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...
How to Create Animated Gradients in SwiftUI
I recently got a question from a reader about how to animate gradient or create an animated gradient background using SwiftUI. The SwiftUI framework provides a number of built-in components such as LinearGradient and...
How To Style SwiftUI Buttons in iOS 15
In iOS 15, Apple introduced a new way to customize buttons in iOS apps for both SwiftUI and UIKit frameworks. While this tutorial focuses on the new features of SwiftUI, you can refer to this fantastic article, written by Sarun,...
How to Share SwiftUI views Using Swift Packages
In the earlier tutorial, we created an animated menu bar in SwiftUI. What if you want to reuse the code in other projects? Of course, you can copy & paste the code from one project to another but there is a better way to...
How to Create an Animated Navigation Menu in SwiftUI Using matchedGeometryEffect
One reason why I really enjoy programming using the SwiftUI framework is that it makes so easy to animate view changes. In particular, the introduction of the matchedGeometryEffect modifier, introduced in iOS 14, further...
Deep Dive into Swift 5.5’s Async/await Concurrency Model
In designing the async/await construct, Apple is hoping to increase the readability, and thus maintainability, of implementing concurrency/parallelism in Swift. What I see in it are attempts: to make asynchronous/parallel code...
Displaying a Bottom Sheet in iOS 15 Using UISheetPresentationController
With the release of SwiftUI, some people have asked if UIKit is going to be dead. It’s far from dead. In iOS 15, Apple’s engineers continues to pour new features into UIKit. One of the highlights is...
How to Implement Search for SwiftUI List Using Searchable
Prior to iOS 15, SwiftUI didn’t come with a built-in modifier for handling search in List views. Developers have to create your own solution. We have written a tutorial showing you how to implement a search bar in SwiftUI...
Using AsyncImage in SwiftUI for Loading Images Asynchronously
In WWDC 2021, Apple announced tons of new features for the SwiftUI framework to make developers’ life easier. AsyncImage is definitely one of the new views, introduced in iOS 15, that is worth a mention. If your app needs...