Tag: SwiftUI
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Opaque Types in Swift: Hiding Details, Not Power
Have you ever wanted to return some kind of value from a function but didn’t want to expose exactly what type it is? Like telling the compiler, I’ll tell you it conforms to a protocol, but you don’t need to know the concrete type. Just trust me, it’ll work. Well, that’s what opaque types are…
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Clean, Reusable Swift Code Using DRY Principle
Hey Switfers! 👋Today we will explore the DRY principle to make our Swift code clean and reusable. So have you ever written a function, copy-pasted it somewhere else, tweaked a line or two, and thought, this looks kinda familiar? If so, you have probably broken a rule we all learn (and forget) early on The…
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Stepper in SwiftUI
Today, we’re going to dive deep into the Stepper control – a versatile and user-friendly way to increment or decrement values in your SwiftUI apps. We’ll explore various ways to implement and customize Steppers, from basic usage to more advanced techniques. What is a Stepper? A Stepper in SwiftUI is a control that lets users…
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Fall Detection API in Swift for WatchOS
I was recently implementing the Fall Detection API in Swift/SwiftUI for watchOS, and I had a lot of trouble getting it working. The documentation was very sparse, and I ended up wasting a lot of hours trying to figure out how to use the API. I was finally able to get it working after about 95% of the way…
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List in SwiftUI
To create a list in SwiftUI, you can use the List view. Here is an example of how you could create a list of names using the List view: In this example, the List view is initialized with the names array and a closure that specifies what each item in the list should look like.…