Creating a PDF Viewer in iOS Development with SwiftUI

Introduction

SwiftUI is Apple’s new framework for developing iOS applications. It is a declarative framework that allows developers to easily create user interfaces with minimal code. One of the features that SwiftUI offers is the ability to create a PDF viewer. This tutorial will show you how to create a PDF viewer using SwiftUI.

Creating the Viewer

The first step in creating a PDF viewer is to create the view. To do this, create a new SwiftUI view and give it a name. In this example, the view will be called “PDFViewer”.

The next step is to add the code for the view. To do this, add the following code to the view:

struct PDFViewer: View {
    var body: some View {
        Text("Hello, World!")
    }
}

This code creates a simple view that displays the text “Hello, World!”. Next, we need to add the code for displaying a PDF file. To do this, add the following code to the view:

struct PDFViewer: View {
    var body: some View {
        PDFKitView(url: URL(string: "https://example.com/myPDF.pdf")!)
    }
}

This code creates a PDFKitView, which is a SwiftUI view that displays a PDF file. The URL parameter is used to specify the URL of the PDF file that should be displayed. In this example, the PDF file is located at “https://example.com/myPDF.pdf”.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to create a PDF viewer using SwiftUI. You created a view and added the code for displaying a PDF file. With this knowledge, you can now create your own PDF viewers for your iOS applications.