How to draw a checkerboard
Updated for Xcode 13.0 beta 2
SwiftUI’s paths don’t need to be continuous, isolated shapes, and can instead be multiple rectangles, ellipses, and more, all combined into one.
As an easy way of demonstrating this, we could write a shape that creates checkerboard patterns by building up a series of rectangles of a set number of rows and columns, like this:
struct Checkerboard: Shape {
let rows: Int
let columns: Int
func path(in rect: CGRect) -> Path {
var path = Path()
// figure out how big each row/column needs to be
let rowSize = rect.height / CGFloat(rows)
let columnSize = rect.width / CGFloat(columns)
// loop over all rows and columns, making alternating squares colored
for row in 0 ..< rows {
for column in 0 ..< columns {
if (row + column).isMultiple(of: 2) {
// this square should be colored; add a rectangle here
let startX = columnSize * CGFloat(column)
let startY = rowSize * CGFloat(row)
let rect = CGRect(x: startX, y: startY, width: columnSize, height: rowSize)
path.addRect(rect)
}
}
}
return path
}
}
// Create a checkerboard in a view
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
Checkerboard(rows: 16, columns: 16)
.fill(Color.red)
.frame(width: 200, height: 200)
}
}
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