Hex Color in SwiftUI
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This recipe shows how to use specify SwiftUI Colors with hex values, either hexadecimal numbers or strings. The end result can look like this:
To make this work, you have to add two extensions to your codebase.
The first one allows you to specify a hex color from an Int, which you can conv...
Converting Between UIFont and SwiftUI Font
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This recipe shows how to handle conversions between UIKit UIFont and SwiftUI Font, as there are more than a few instances where using both is necessary. This mainly comes into play when you import UIViews into SwiftUI via UIViewRepresentable.
OK, so here's how it is:
- Converting UIFon...
List Available Fonts in SwiftUI
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This quick recipe show how to list and display all the fonts that are available by default in your iOS/MacOS app. The end result looks like this:
Here's the code:
let allFontNames = UIFont.familyNames
.flatMap { UIFont.fontNames(forFamilyName: $0) }
var body: some View {
List(allFontNames...Justify Text in SwiftUI
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This recipe shows how to render justified text in SwiftUI. The end result looks like this:
Unfortunately, SwiftUI doesn't support justifying text natively. The TextAlignment enum doesn't contain this option, forcing us to resort to good old UIViewRepresentable to make it happen:
struct J...Reading time: 2 min
This quick tip shows how to speed up your SwiftUI development by simply breaking the code of your Views into smaller chunks. This results in:
- Faster Source Editor operation, i.e syntax highlighting and error/warnings checks will come in faster.
- Faster preview build and refresh time.
- Fast...
