day-020

Day 20: Project 2: Guess The Flag, Part One

Follow along at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/20.

📒 Field Notes

This day covers Part One of Project 2: Guess The Flag in the 100 Days of SwiftUI Challenge.

It focuses on several specific topics:

• Using stacks to arrange views
• Colors and frames
• Gradients
• Buttons and images
• Showing alert messages

Using stacks to arrange views

Each SwiftUI View returns some View for its computed body property. If we want it to contain multiple views, we can wrap it in a stack such as a VStack, HStack or ZStack. Other containers such as Group, List, Form, etc can also facilitate this need.

Colors and frames

That SwiftUI's Color type is a View perfectly epitomizes the framework's ethos of composability. It's views all the way down -- which makes pulling off effects like full screen background colors s cinch:

ZStack {
    Color.red.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
    Text("⚡️")
}

Gradients

Whether it's a LinearGradient', 'RadialGradient', or AngularGradient, the same View`-based benefits afforded to color also apply to SwiftUI gradients. Which is good... because gradients are sexy AF.

Showing alert messages

In UIKit, alerts would need to be constructed as part of a UIAlertController and then explicitly presented inside of another controller.

In SwiftUI... alerts exist as another modifier on a view -- which binds to a certain piece of state to know whether or not it should be shown:

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var isShowingAlert = false

    var body: some View {
        Button("Show Alert") {
            self.isShowingAlert = true
        }
        .alert(isPresented: $isShowingAlert) {
            Alert(title: Text("Hello SwiftUI!"), message: Text("This is some detail message"), dismissButton: .default(Text("OK")))
        }
    }
}