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Published inDec 2023
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781805121732
Edition3rd Edition
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Juan C. Catalan
Juan C. Catalan
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Juan C. Catalan

Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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Implementing a Markdown editor with preview functionality

Markdown is a lightweight markup language to create rich text using a text editor. In recent years, it has become ubiquitous: you can use it in GitHub, when asking and replying to questions in Stack Overflow, for messaging in Discord, and more.

SwiftUI provides support for Markdown tags in the Text views.

In this recipe, we’ll experiment with Markdown, implementing a simple text editor.

Getting ready

This recipe doesn’t require any preliminary operations. Create a new Xcode project called MarkdownEditor.

How to do it…

Taking inspiration from the GitHub pull request comment textbox, we are going to implement an app with two tabs: a text editor view and a preview view, where the text is rendered as rich text, with bold, italics, and so on.

The text editor view will have a tab bar above the editor itself for adding Markdown tags for the bold, italics, strikethrough, and code formats...

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Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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