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Set SwiftUI backgroundColor the same way as foregroundColor

Daily Coding Tip 009

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Dec 27, 2020
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It’s useful that SwiftUI has a modifier called .background() so that you can add any kind of view behind the current view. Instead of being limited to colour, your background could be an image or a more complicated shape. But when I use the .foregroundColor() modifier, I take advantage of the fact that a Color is expected by g…

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