SwiftUI & FormatStyle
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This is part of the FormatStyle Deep Dive series
The Text View struct now can accept any data type and a formatted: FormatStyle parameter. The view will then apply that formatter onto that data type and render the string on screen.
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Never write Text("\()") again. Just pass in the right FormatStyle.
struct ContentView: View {
static let twosdayDateComponents = DateComponents(
year: 2022,
month: 2,
day: 22,
hour: 2,
minute: 22,
second: 22,
nanosecond: 22
)
var twosday: Date {
Calendar(identifier: .gregorian).date(from: ContentView.twosdayDateComponents)!
}
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text(twosday, format: Date.FormatStyle(date: .complete, time: .complete))
Text(twosday, format: .dateTime.hour())
Text(twosday, format: .dateTime.year().month().day())
}
.padding()
}
}
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Every data type and style is supported. Check out the full deep dive!
Attributed Strings
Text views can accept AttributedStrings as a parameter in their initializers. Most of the FormatStyle implementations provided by apple have the ability to output AttributedString values instead of plain String types.
The AttributedStrings Deep Dive has full details on this.
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