Zoom Image in SwiftUI
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This recipe shows how to zoom an image in SwiftUI using the pinch/magnify gesture. The image is zoomed in or out at the midpoint between the fingers, supports dragging and double tap to zoom in or reset. The end result looks like this:
The recipe goes as follows:
- Use a custom
UIVIewwi...
SwiftUI Load Remote Image (Any Version)
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This recipe provides a drop-in replacement for iOS 15 AsyncImage. This allows you to load images from remote sources on any SwiftUI version, with the code being exactly the same (minus the Compat at the end of name :]). The end result looks like this:
AsyncImage and AsyncImageCompat bot...
SwiftUI Image Picker
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This recipe shows how to add an image picker to your SwiftUI app. You'll do this by wrapping a UIKit UIImagePickerController in a UIViewControllerRepresentable. The end result looks like this:
This recipe is a part of our Road to DigitalSignatureView series, which explores various co...
GIF Images in SwiftUI
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This recipe shows how to render GIFs in SwiftUI. The end result looks like this:
This component is available as a Swift package in this repo.
GIFs are a weird animal in the iOS/macOS world - while CoreGraphics contain ways of extracting GIF-related info from raw data, there's no na...
SVG images in SwiftUI
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This tutorial shows how to use SVG images in SwiftUI.
First, add the Macaw library to your project. Then, wrap its SVGView using this simple UIViewRepresentable wrapper:
import Macaw
struct SVGImage: UIViewRepresentable {
// a binding allows for dynamic updates to the shown image
@B...