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Creating Forms in SwiftUI

Collect user input in a concise and practical fashion

Gabriel Theodoropoulos
7 min readMay 29, 2023
Photo by Vladimir Srajber: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-an-audio-amplifier-10833562/

Welcome to another SwiftUI tutorial, where we are about to explore and learn how to create forms in SwiftUI. Forms are a special kind of container views that allow to group input controls together, applying platform-appropriate styling to them automatically. Forms are ideal for building user interfaces that allow data entry, like settings or sign up/sign in views.

Throughout the following paragraphs you will meet how to use various input controls along with forms, such as text fields, toggles, pickers, steppers, and more. Such controls let us collect various kind of data from users, as well as display data properly. In addition, you will also see how to organize content into logical groups with sections, and therefore how to separate information into meaningful parts.

Here’s an example of a form that you’ll learn how to create in this post:

Defining a simple form

As mentioned in the beginning, forms are container views like HStacks, VStacks and others. So, all of their content is implemented into the body of a closure. Right…

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Gabriel Theodoropoulos
Gabriel Theodoropoulos

Written by Gabriel Theodoropoulos

An iOS & macOS app maker writing code in Swift. Author of countless programming tutorials. Content creator. https://serialcoder.dev

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