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Learn SwiftUI

You're reading from   Learn SwiftUI An introductory guide to creating intuitive cross-platform user interfaces using Swift 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215421
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chris Barker Chris Barker
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with SwiftUI 2. Understanding Declarative Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Layout and Structure 4. Creating Your First Application 5. Understanding Controls, Views, and Lists 6. Working with Navigation in SwiftUI 7. Creating a Form with States and Data Binding 8. Networking and Linking to Your Existing App Logic 9. Maps and Location Services 10. Updating for iPad with NavigationViewStyle 11. SwiftUI on watchOS 12. SwiftUI versus UIKit 13. Basic Animation in Views 14. Animations in Transitions 15. Testing in SwiftUI 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating our recipe form View

In this section, we'll start the beginning of our form. There are multiple ways we could tackle this, either by creating a VStack and a list of Views or by creating our own custom View and iterating through a ListView of options.

But in the case of our app, I'll introduce you to forms and sections. Other than the obvious naming of the controls, forms do a great job of making our desired layout really simple and with very little effort.

Let's start by adding a couple of text fields to visualize how this all looks.

Implementing text and text fields

We'll start by creating a new SwiftUI View. We'll create a new file in our Xcode project called RecipeDetailView by highlighting...

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