Animations in SwiftUI: A Guide to Creating Smooth and Engaging User Experiences

Learn how to work with Animations in SwiftUI

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Animations can greatly enhance the user experience of an app by adding visual interest and feedback to user interactions. SwiftUI makes it easy to add animations to your views, and in this article, we’ll explore some tips and techniques for creating smooth and engaging animations.

Basic Animations

In SwiftUI, you can animate changes to a view’s properties using the .animation() modifier. This modifier takes an animation object that defines the animation's duration, timing curve, and other properties. Here's an example:

struct BasicAnimationView: View {
    @State private var showText = false
    
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            if showText {
                Text("Hello, World!")
                    .animation(.easeInOut(duration: 1.0))
            }
            
            Button("Toggle Text") {
                showText.toggle()
            }
        }
    }
}

In this example, we use the @State property wrapper to manage the showText variable, which controls whether the Text view is displayed or not. When the user taps the "Toggle Text" button, we toggle the value of showText, which triggers an…