Learn SwiftUI

Text options

We've covered the Text() object in a couple of chapters now, but there is so much more to show, so let's head straight back to the code that we left in Chapter 4, Creating Your First Application:

    var body: some View {        VStack {            List(recipeNames, id: \.self) { name in                Text("\(name)")            }        }    }

As we can see, the Text View is just a basic control (along with a string being interpolated). Let's start by making some small amendments; then we can see what options are available to us. For the next code snippet, we'll just focus on the Text object for now:

Text("\(name)")    .font(.headline)

Directly after the Text object, press Enter and then type .font(.headline). Here, we are adding a font modifier to our object and passing in a pre-defined ...