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Michele Fadda
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Michele is currently working as a technical project and program manager at Eggon, an innovative startup in Padua, Italy, and as the director of FWLAB Limited, a UK App development studio. He specializes in skills such as Imperative Programming, Functional programming, Swift, Mobile Application Development. He started programming as a child with Assembly language and has worked for 20 years as a consultant using a variety of languages and technologies. He started developing for iOS with iOS on iOS v.3.0 in 2009. He has also developed many apps as a solo developer and has also participated in numerous projects.
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A matter of state

This is intended as a convenient recap to give you a summary of all the ways SwiftUI allows you to share state.

SwiftUI offers various mechanisms to bind state changes to views, including @State, @Binding, @ObservedObject, @StateObject, and @EnvironmentObject (@Environment is used for system predefined values you want to observe). Let’s go over these mechanisms in more detail:

  • @State: This property wrapper stores mutable state for a specific view. SwiftUI manages the storage and ensures that whenever the state changes, the view is re-displayed. It’s used for simple, private state management within a single view.

    Here’s an example:

    struct ContentView: View {
        @State private var isOn = false
        var body: some View {
            Toggle("Toggle", isOn: $isOn)
        }
    }

    The @State variable, isON, is bidirectionally bound to the value...

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Michele Fadda

Michele is currently working as a technical project and program manager at Eggon, an innovative startup in Padua, Italy, and as the director of FWLAB Limited, a UK App development studio. He specializes in skills such as Imperative Programming, Functional programming, Swift, Mobile Application Development. He started programming as a child with Assembly language and has worked for 20 years as a consultant using a variety of languages and technologies. He started developing for iOS with iOS on iOS v.3.0 in 2009. He has also developed many apps as a solo developer and has also participated in numerous projects.
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