SwiftUI page control implementation - swiftui

Question

I need to implement something like an animated page control. And I don't want to use integration with UIKit if possible. I have pages array containing 4 views I need to switch between. I create the animation itself by changing the value of progress variable using timer. And I have the following code right now
#State var pages: [PageView]
#State var currentIndex = 0
#State var nextIndex = 1
#State var progress: Double = 0
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Button(action: {
self.isAnimating = true
}) { shape.onReceive(timer) { _ in
if !self.isAnimating {
return
}
self.refreshAnimatingViews()
}
}.offset(y: 300)
pages[currentIndex]
.offset(x: -CGFloat(pow(2, self.progress)))
pages[nextIndex]
.offset(x: CGFloat(pow(2, (limit - progress))))
}
}
It is animating great - current page is moved to the left until it disappears, and the next page is revealed from the right taking its place. At the end of animation I add 1 to both indices and reset progress to 0. But once the animation (well not exactly an animation - I just change the value of progress using timer, and generate every state manually) is over, the page with index 1 is swapped back to page with index 0. If I check with debugger, currentIndex and nextIndex values are correct - 1 and 2, but the page displayed after animation is always the one I started with (with index 0). Does anybody know why this is happening?
The whole code follows
struct ContentView : View {
let limit: Double = 15
let step: Double = 0.3
let timer = Timer.publish(every: 0.01, on: .current, in: .common).autoconnect()
#State private var shape = AnyView(Circle().foregroundColor(.blue).frame(width: 60.0, height: 60.0, alignment: .center))
#State var pages: [PageView]
#State var currentIndex = 0
#State var nextIndex = 1
#State var progress: Double = 0
#State var isAnimating = false
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Button(action: {
self.isAnimating = true
}) { shape.onReceive(timer) { _ in
if !self.isAnimating {
return
}
self.refreshAnimatingViews()
}
}.offset(y: 300)
pages[currentIndex]
.offset(x: -CGFloat(pow(2, self.progress)))
pages[nextIndex]
.offset(x: CGFloat(pow(2, (limit - progress))))
}.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.vertical)
}
func refreshAnimatingViews() {
progress += step
if progress > 2*limit {
isAnimating = false
progress = 0
currentIndex = nextIndex
if nextIndex + 1 < pages.count {
nextIndex += 1
} else {
nextIndex = 0
}
}
}
}
struct PageView: View {
#State var title: String
#State var imageName: String
#State var content: String
let imageWidth: Length = 150
var body: some View {
VStack(alignment: .center, spacing: 15) {
Text(title).font(Font.system(size: 40)).fontWeight(.bold).lineLimit(nil)
Image(imageName)
.resizable()
.frame(width: imageWidth, height: imageWidth)
.cornerRadius(imageWidth/2)
.clipped()
Text(content).font(.body).lineLimit(nil)
}.padding(60)
}
}
struct MockData {
static let title = "Eating grapes 101"
static let contentStrings = [
"Step 1. Break off a branch holding a few grapes and lay it on your plate.",
"Step 2. Put a grape in your mouth whole.",
"Step 3. Deposit the seeds into your thumb and first two fingers.",
"Step 4. Place the seeds on your plate."
]
static let imageNames = [
"screen 1",
"screen 2",
"screen 3",
"screen 4"
]
}
in SceneDelegate:
if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
let pages = (0...3).map { i in
PageView(title: MockData.title, imageName: MockData.imageNames[i], content: MockData.contentStrings[i])
}
let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView(pages:
pages))
self.window = window
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}

Answer 1

The following solution works. I think the problem was switching out views while SwiftUI tries to diff and update them is not something SwiftUI is good at.
So just use the same two PageView views and swap out their content based on the current index.
import Foundation
import SwiftUI
import Combine
struct PagesView : View {
let limit: Double = 15
let step: Double = 0.3
#State var pages: [Page] = (0...3).map { i in
Page(title: MockData.title, imageName: MockData.imageNames[i], content: MockData.contentStrings[i])
}
#State var currentIndex = 0
#State var nextIndex = 1
#State var progress: Double = 0
#State var isAnimating = false
static let timerSpeed: Double = 0.01
#State var timer = Timer.publish(every: timerSpeed, on: .current, in: .common).autoconnect()
#State private var shape = AnyView(Circle().foregroundColor(.blue).frame(width: 60.0, height: 60.0, alignment: .center))
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Button(action: {
self.isAnimating.toggle()
self.timer = Timer.publish(every: Self.timerSpeed, on: .current, in: .common).autoconnect()
}) { self.shape
}.offset(y: 300)
PageView(page: pages[currentIndex])
.offset(x: -CGFloat(pow(2, self.progress)))
PageView(page: pages[nextIndex])
.offset(x: CGFloat(pow(2, (self.limit - self.progress))))
}.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.vertical)
.onReceive(self.timer) { _ in
if !self.isAnimating {
return
}
self.refreshAnimatingViews()
}
}
func refreshAnimatingViews() {
progress += step
if progress > 2*limit {
isAnimating = false
progress = 0
currentIndex = nextIndex
if nextIndex + 1 < pages.count {
nextIndex += 1
} else {
nextIndex = 0
}
}
}
}
struct Page {
var title: String
var imageName: String
var content: String
let imageWidth: CGFloat = 150
}
struct PageView: View {
var page: Page
var body: some View {
VStack(alignment: .center, spacing: 15) {
Text(page.title).font(Font.system(size: 40)).fontWeight(.bold).lineLimit(nil)
Image(page.imageName)
.resizable()
.frame(width: page.imageWidth, height: page.imageWidth)
.cornerRadius(page.imageWidth/2)
.clipped()
Text(page.content).font(.body).lineLimit(nil)
}.padding(60)
}
}
struct MockData {
static let title = "Eating grapes 101"
static let contentStrings = [
"Step 1. Break off a branch holding a few grapes and lay it on your plate.",
"Step 2. Put a grape in your mouth whole.",
"Step 3. Deposit the seeds into your thumb and first two fingers.",
"Step 4. Place the seeds on your plate."
]
static let imageNames = [
"screen 1",
"screen 2",
"screen 3",
"screen 4"
]
}