Custom Toggle Styling in SwiftUI
How to create custom SwiftUI toggles for your iOS Apps
In a previous article, I demonstrated how important it is to customize the button component in SwiftUI using a style instead of creating a button from scratch. This approach becomes increasingly useful as the complexity of the component grows.
One of the most common UI element is the toggle , previously know as switch. We can use toggles for an incredible number of user cases… could be simple on/off buttons, could be fields to select/unselect in a user panel, etc…
In this article, I will show you how to create custom styles to modify the toggle component in SwiftUI as you see fit.
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The Toggle
A toggle is a pretti basic and useful UI element. It is made by two components:
- a label with a text and or an icon
- a button with an on/off state
It is bound to a variable describing its state:
