Layout and Card Components

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Create a simple layout with card components and horizontal and vertical scrolls

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Build an Animated App with Rive and SwiftUI

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Background Animation in Rive

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Button Animation in Rive

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Custom Fonts

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Modal Transition

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Loading and Success Animation

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Tab Bar Animated Icons

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Tab Bar Selection

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Icon Animation in Rive

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Layout and Card Components

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Side Menu Animated Icons

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Side Menu Selection

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Side Menu Animation

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Main View Animation

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Course and CourseSection Data

In order to build our cards efficiently, we should use pre-made data. Since this part is repetitive, I’ve prepared the data in advanced and you can drag and drop the Model folder from the Assets.

Otherwise, you can create a new file Course and copy and paste the following data.

struct Course: Identifiable {
    var id = UUID()
    var title: String
    var subtitle: String
    var caption: String
    var color: Color
    var image: Image
}

var courses = [
    Course(title: "Animations in SwiftUI", subtitle: "Build and animate an iOS app from scratch", caption: "20 sections - 3 hours", color: Color(hex: "7850F0"), image: Image("Topic 1")),
    Course(title: "Build Quick Apps with SwiftUI", subtitle: "Apply your Swift and SwiftUI knowledge by building real, quick and various applications from scratch", caption: "47 sections - 11 hours", color: Color(hex: "6792FF"), image: Image("Topic 2")),
    Course(title: "Build a SwiftUI app for iOS 15", subtitle: "Design and code a SwiftUI 3 app with custom layouts, animations and gestures using Xcode 13, SF Symbols 3, Canvas, Concurrency, Searchable and a whole lot more", caption: "21 sections - 4 hours", color: Color(hex: "005FE7"), image: Image("Topic 1"))
]

Create another file CourseSection and copy and paste the following.

struct CourseSection: Identifiable {
    var id = UUID()
    var title: String
    var caption: String
    var color: Color
    var image: Image
}

var courseSections = [
    CourseSection(title: "State Machine", caption: "Watch video - 15 mins", color: Color(hex: "9CC5FF"), image: Image("Topic 2")),
    CourseSection(title: "Animated Menu", caption: "Watch video - 10 mins", color: Color(hex: "6E6AE8"), image: Image("Topic 1")),
    CourseSection(title: "Tab Bar", caption: "Watch video - 8 mins", color: Color(hex: "005FE7"), image: Image("Topic 2")),
    CourseSection(title: "Button", caption: "Watch video - 9 mins", color: Color(hex: "BBA6FF"), image: Image("Topic 1"))
]

Vertical Card Component

Create a new file VCard and build the layout using custom fonts.

var course: Course

var body: some View {
    VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) {
        Text(course.title)
            .customFont(.title2)
            .frame(maxWidth: 170, alignment: .leading)
            .layoutPriority(1)
        Text(course.subtitle)
            .opacity(0.7)
            .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
        Text(course.caption.uppercased())
            .customFont(.footnote2)
            .opacity(0.7)
        Spacer()
    }
    .foregroundColor(.white)
    .padding(30)
    .frame(width: 260, height: 310)
    .background(.linearGradient(colors: [course.color.opacity(1), course.color.opacity(0.5)], startPoint: .topLeading, endPoint: .bottomTrailing))
    .mask(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30, style: .continuous))
    .shadow(color: course.color.opacity(0.3), radius: 8, x: 0, y: 12)
    .shadow(color: course.color.opacity(0.3), radius: 2, x: 0, y: 1)
    .overlay(
        course.image
            .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity, alignment: .topTrailing)
            .padding(20)
    )
}

Random Avatars

For the avatars at the bottom of the card, we can randomize between 3 numbers and get the index value for the asset.

// After Spacer()
HStack {
    ForEach(Array([4, 5, 6].shuffled().enumerated()), id: \.offset) { index, number in
        Image("Avatar \(number)")
            .resizable()
            .mask(Circle())
            .frame(width: 44, height: 44)
            .offset(x: CGFloat(index * -20))
    }
}

Horizontal Card Component

Next, we’ll create the large cards that sits at the bottom of the screen.

var section: courseSection

var body: some View {
    HStack(spacing: 20) {
        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) {
            Text(section.title)
                .customFont(.title2)
                .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
            Text(section.caption)
                .customFont(.body)
        }
        Divider()
        section.image
    }
    .padding(30)
    .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: 110)
    .foregroundColor(.white)
    .background(section.color)
    .mask(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30, style: .continuous))
}

Home View

Now we can compose the main view by creating a new file called HomeView. Create the custom titles and the horizontal ScrollView for the VCard as well as a VStack for the bottom HCard.

VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
    VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
        Text("Courses")
            .customFont(.largeTitle)
            .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
    }
    .padding(.horizontal, 20)

    ScrollView(.horizontal, showsIndicators: false) {
        HStack(spacing: 20) {
            ForEach(courses) { course in
                VCard(course: course)
            }
        }
        .padding(20)
        .padding(.bottom, 10)
    }

    VStack {
        Text("Recent")
            .customFont(.title3)
        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)

        VStack(spacing: 20) {
            ForEach(courseSections) { section in
                HCard(section: section)
            }
        }
    }
    .padding(20)
}

Main Scroll View and Background

Next, wrap everything inside a ZStack with a background color and ScrollView for the content.

var body: some View {
    ZStack {
        Color("Background").ignoresSafeArea()

        ScrollView {
            content
        }
    }
}

var content: some View {
    // VStack
}

Show Home View

In ContentView, we’ll include the HomeView instead of the Text.

switch selectedTab {
case .chat:
    HomeView()
case .search:
    Text("Search")
case .timer:
    Text("Timer")
case .bell:
    Text("Bell")
case .user:
    Text("User")
}

Safe Area Inset

Since we have a custom Navigation Menu and Tab Bar, we should use safeAreaInset to fix the scroll bar offset. To apply to all the views, wrap inside a Group first.

Group {
    switch selectedTab {
    case .chat:
        HomeView()
    case .search:
        Text("Search")
    case .timer:
        Text("Timer")
    case .bell:
        Text("Bell")
    case .user:
        Text("User")
    }
}
.safeAreaInset(edge: .bottom) {
    Color.clear.frame(height: 80)
}
.safeAreaInset(edge: .top) {
    Color.clear.frame(height: 104)
}
.ignoresSafeArea()

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