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Recreate The 3D Aqua Buttons From OS X Leopard In SwiftUI

Daily Coding Tip 036

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Jan 24, 2021
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The original Mac OS X (version 10.0) introduced a new User Interface called Aqua.

As you can see in the screenshot above, Steve Jobs was confident that it would look good enough to lick. This was probably due to the way that the lighting on the button bubbles made them seem like candy. This is a tutorial for recreating the dialog box above, which more c…

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