DAY 45
Project 9, part 3
Today we’re going to complete your knowledge of SwiftUI navigation by looking at the customization options available to us: customizing the navigation bar appearance, placing toolbar buttons in exact locations, and also letting users edit the navigation title.
Of the three, the middle one is the most important because it comes in two variants: we can either force exact positions of buttons, or we can semantic locations that allow SwiftUI to place the buttons where they make sense for the current platform – and also apply extra styling as appropriate.
A Steve Jobs quote I love is, "Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works." This is the power of a declarative layout system like SwiftUI: by giving extra information to the system, by describing the role something has, SwiftUI takes care of making it work the correct way automatically – it's much easier than trying to do it all ourselves.
Today you have three topics to work through, where you’ll learn about custom navigation bar appearances, hiding the back button, toolbar placements, , and more.
- Customizing the navigation bar appearance
- Placing toolbar buttons in exact locations
- Making your navigation title editable
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