"Production" SwiftUI — Building a Better TextField — PART II

Source Code: https://github.com/kitlangton/OmenTex...
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SwiftUI gives wonderful demos. However, when building nontrivial apps, one quickly finds themselves on dark road capped with two dead ends, paved with potholes, dripping with tar, crying blood… You look up and realize you’ve lost 5 hours attempting to change the color of a List view header, and still failed.

Having worked on an app in SwiftUI since it was first released (https://omen.cards), I’ve lost many lonely, one-sided battles against the built-in Views. However, I’ve also experienced a handful of victories. And I intend to stumble through clunky video editing software in order to share these with you!

In this second part, we’re going to add some more polish and functionality to our augmented TextField. This will include exploring API and data model design, SwiftUI Bindings, a “one weird trick” or two, and the word *heuristics*. This second episode is replete with theme music as well as a certain YouTube invocation to simultaneously-enjoy-and-view-at-regular-intervals. Bon appetite!

(There are a few odd audio-visual glitches, thanks to my editing software malfunctioning—though I think I figured out how to avoid these in the next one 🥳. We'll see!)