Module 1 of the Design Course from CodeWithChris concludes with a tutorial on including your own (custom) fonts into your app project. Given the complexity of shapes and gradients in previous lessons, I erronously thought that “Custom Fonts” meant creating your own typefaces within the app rather than including a […]
Design Course – Module 1
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Today’s lesson in the Design Course from CodeWithChris looks at how we can create custom styles for our buttons. Once again, I enjoyed playing around with the design options for this. That’s been the delight of this Design Course for me – after the heavyweight coding tutorials of the iOS […]
It sounds like the start of a joke but, actually, it’s one of the reasons why SwiftUI is difficult to code. Take, for example, the simple wish to create a Rectangle() with an outline. In SwiftUI, you use the .stroke modifier, thus: Great, huh? A nice outline around your Rectangle(). […]
You know a lesson is going to go well when it begins with Chris setting up an element and preceding his actions with the phrase “as you know”, only we don’t know any such thing. In this case, the lesson deals with styling “text fields”. Nowhere in the iOS Foundations […]
Lesson 4 introduces us to ways of creating complex designs that incorporate gradients instead of solid colours, shadows, and blurs. Gradients is particularly complex, but only because it’s so powerful. The challenge design/image gave plenty of scope for playing around with the various elements and modifiers, but it also incorporated […]
Okay, so using my Mac mini from another room via VNC on my Windows 11 laptop is never going to be a smooth experience, let’s get that set from the start. On some occasions, needs must and you do what you have to do. Ten days ago, my Mac mini […]
Lesson 3 of Module 1 of the CodeWithChris Design Course introduces us to Path(). This element effectively allows you to “draw” a shape based on coordinates, a bit like a primitive CAD drawing (something I’m very used to). It gets a bit complicated with where the drawing’s origin point is […]
Lesson 2 of Module 1 from the CodeWithChris Design Course is to recreate a design using just the shapes elements in SwiftUI. I think I got pretty close! I did have to look up what was possible with the RoundedRectangle() but, after that, it was all just about playing around […]