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Working with the Tab View in SwiftUI
There are various ways to visually structure an app, and what usually defines that is a combination of the app’s purpose with its content. iOS applications contain much of custom work regarding the user interface in order to offer uniqueness, and it’s a place where both designers and developers can get crazily creative. Despite all that, however, we may optionally start off based on certain templates, and gradually build the entire app on them. Consider, for example, the navigation or the tab bar based apps.
The latter is what I’m focusing on in this post today. More specifically, I’m presenting how to create a tab bar based application in SwiftUI. As almost everything else, doing so is pretty easy in SwiftUI, and the effort required comparing to UIKit is significantly less. But let’s leave talking aside, and let’s jump straight into the point.
The Tab View
All controls in SwiftUI are views. And the tab bar is not an exception. The Tab View is the responsible one for adding and manipulating a tab bar in SwiftUI based projects. It’s a container view, since it contains all views presented behind each tab item.
Creating a tab bar requires no effort as you can see in the next snippet:
