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Padding in SwiftUI: A Comprehensive Guide

There are plenty of ways to approach spacing in your SwiftUI views. You can use the Spacer() to align elements to the left or right or fill up the space between them, or you can set the value of the spacing property in your HStacks or VStacks to distribute their

Set TextField Focus in SwiftUI

Managing the focus of a TextField in SwiftUI has been a long-awaited feature, as it allows developers to create more user-friendly and intuitive interfaces. With the introduction of the @FocusState property wrapper and the focused modifier in SwiftUI 3 (iOS 15, macOS 12), developers can now easily control the focus

Element and Index: Enumerated ForEach in Swift UI

Looping through an array of elements to display them in a list is a very common and, thus, quite straightforward task in SwiftUI. One might think accessing the index of an elemen should be just as simple. But it's not… so let's discover it together. To

Using HEX Color Values in SwiftUI

Most often, when working on implementing a design in SwiftUI, you'll be faced with the challenge of somehow converting a HEX color value to something that is usable in SwiftUI. This seemingly simple task is surprisingly hard to achieve. Much harder than it probably should be because, for

Combining Multiple SwiftUI View Modifiers Into One

There comes a day in the life of a Swift developer when you find yourself writing the same set of ViewModifiers repeatedly to apply the same style to Stacks in different parts of your project. This can be not only tedious but also prone to visual inconsistencies. In the case

Creating Menu Bar Apps in SwiftUI for macOS Ventura

Creating menu bar extras for Swift UI Apps used to be a rather tedious task since there was no native SwiftUI solution to this problem. Instead, the MenuBarExtra had to be implemented in AppKit, requiring an AppDelegate file. With macOS 13 Ventura, though, Apple finally provides a way to do