Category: Swift
Accessibility in iOS: Making Apps Inclusive with SwiftUI
In today’s digital age, ensuring that apps are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, is not just a courtesy—it’s a necessity. Accessibility is about designing your apps to support the needs of people who experience disabilities such as limited vision, hearing difficulties, or motor impairments. Apple’s SwiftUI framework is equipped with powerful tools that…
Class Inheritance vs Structs and Protocols in Swift
To explain class inheritance using your example, we’ll first demonstrate the class-based approach and then show how to achieve similar functionality using structs and protocols. This will help beginners understand the differences between classes and structs and when to use each. Class Inheritance In Swift, class inheritance allows one class to inherit properties and methods…
How to preview SwiftUI views in Xcode Playground.
Previewing SwiftUi code using Xcode playgrounds can be done by using settings live view or UIHostingController. Let us see this by using the following code snippet (SwiftUI View) which displays a button that increments a counter. UIHostingController Setting Live View
Data Binding in SwiftUI
In the world of SwiftUI, data binding is a core concept that facilitates the seamless flow of data between your app’s user interface and its underlying data models. This connection allows the UI to update automatically when data changes, and vice versa. For developers, mastering data binding is crucial to building responsive and state-driven applications.…
Building Custom Views with SwiftUI
SwiftUI provides a powerful and flexible framework for developing sophisticated user interfaces with less code and greater reuse. This blog post will demonstrate how to create custom views and incorporate animations in SwiftUI, using an expense split app as our example. The goal is to show you how to enhance the UI/UX of your apps…
Adapting Text Colour for Dark Mode in SwiftUI
In SwiftUI, ensuring text colour adapts appropriately to dark mode is crucial for readability. If your app supports an automatic appearance mode, the text colour needs to adjust dynamically based on the system’s appearance settings. Here’s a simple way to implement this: This code snippet checks if the darkMode setting is set to .auto. If…
Understanding State Management in SwiftUI
State management is a crucial aspect of building dynamic and responsive applications in SwiftUI. For beginners, understanding how to manage state effectively can significantly enhance your ability to build robust applications. Let’s explore how to use various state management techniques in SwiftUI using an example of an expense split app. We’ll cover @State, @Binding, @StateObject,…