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Swipe Actions in SwiftUI
Swipe actions is not a new concept in iOS or macOS programming. We have been using such actions for years in Apple’s applications, with a quite typical example being the Mail app. Programmatically we know them from the table view in UIKit, where we implement them in order to allow users to perform specific operations on individual cells. In SwiftUI swipe actions had not been available until WWDC 2021; it was there where it was eventually announced that the third release of SwiftUI was going to support such actions natively. In this post we are about to explore this topic, and have a hands-on experience on how to integrate swipe actions in SwiftUI.
A demo scenario
Let’s suppose that we have the next list of old movies:
Credits: Top rated movies from IMDB.
Our goal here is to add swipe actions to both the leading and trailing edges of each row, so we can do the following:
- Indicate whether the user has watched a movie or not.
- Indicate whether the user watched that movie alone or with friends, i.e. in a cinema.
- Remove a movie from the list in case the user does not like it.
