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Published inDec 2023
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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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Drawing a curved custom shape

Following on from the Drawing a Custom Shape recipe, what if we want to define a shape that is made up not only of straight lines but also has a curved line? In this recipe, we will build a heart-shaped component using the arc and curve primitives of Path.

Getting ready

As usual, create a SwiftUI app called Heart.

How to do it…

We are going to follow the same steps that we implemented in the Drawing a custom shape recipe, adding curves and an arc from one point to another.Since the control points of a heart shape are in the midpoint of each side, we must add some convenient properties to the CGRect struct. CGRect is a structure inherited from the Core Graphics framework and has been present in iOS since the beginning. It is used to describe a rectangle in the drawing space. You define a rectangle with the coordinates of its origin and its two dimensions, width, and height. Let's get started with our custom shape. Perform the following steps...

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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805121732

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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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