Beginning iPhone Development with SwiftUI: Exploring the iOS SDK

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W. WangBeginning iPhone Development with SwiftUIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7818-5_7

7. Retrieving Text from Text Fields and Text Editors

Wally Wang¹  

(1)

San Diego, CA, USA

 

User interfaces often need to retrieve text from the user. Sometimes, this text can be a single word or short phrase, but other times this text might consist of several paragraphs. To retrieve text from the user, SwiftUI offers three types of views:

• Text Field

• Secure Field

• Text Editor

A Text Field lets the user type in a single line of text such as a name or an address. Optionally, Text Fields can display placeholder text that appears in light gray and is used to explain what type of ...