Send mail in SwiftUI
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This recipe shows how to send mail from SwiftUI. You'll build a MailView by wrapping MessageUI's MFMailComposeViewController in a UIViewControllerRepresentable. You'll be able to:
- Determine if you can send mail or not.
- Pass subject, message and recipients to the view via a binding.
- A...
Flow Layout / Tag Cloud in SwiftUI
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A Flow Layout is a container that orders its views sequentially, breaking into a new "line" according to the available width of the screen. You can compare it to a left-aligned block of text, where every word is a View. A common use for this layout is to create a tag cloud. The end result look...
Side menu in SwiftUI (updated 05/21)
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This tutorial shows how to create a side menu (or navigation drawer, as it's known on Android), in SwiftUI. It's also a good showcase of using GeometryReader to offset views and DragGesture to detect user gestures. The end result will look like this:
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SwiftUI Splash Screen
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This recipe shows how to add a Splash Screen to your SwiftUI app! You can specify a custom view that will show when your app starts and then dismiss itself automatically after a certain period of time.
The end result looks like this:
This component is available as a Swift Package in thi...
Networking with Background Tasks in iOS 13
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This recipe shows how to perform a GET request in the background using BGTaskScheduler and BGAppRefreshTaskRequest. For whatever reason, this has way too many gotchas:
- You can't use Alamofire, you have to use
URLSession. - You can use
URLSessionDataTask, it has to be aURLSessionDownl...