How to Create Confetti Animations in SwiftUI
From time to time, we received questions about how to create confetti animations. Undoubtedly, you can build the animation from the ground up using SwiftUI or UIKit. Recently I came across an open source library called...
Using Lottie and SwiftUI to Create Awesome Animations
A few years ago, I wrote a tutorial about the Lottie library. A reader asked if he could use the library in SwiftUI projects. So, in this tutorial, let’s revisit this amazing library and see how we can use it in SwiftUI...
Working with Image Tracking in ARKit
Starting from iOS 12, developers can use the back-facing camera to detect and track known images by using an API called ARImageTrackingConfiguration. What does it mean to you? If you’ve watched the Harry Potter movie...
Using Markdown in SwiftUI
Other than all the big features such as AsyncImage and searchable, the iOS 15 SDK also introduced some minor improvements to streamline the development of iOS apps. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Markdown in...
Swift Playgrounds 4: Building a Text to Speech App Entirely on iPad
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...
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...