What are SwiftUI Transitions and How Do You Use Them?

The word “transition” means the process of change from one state to another.

Transitions are pre-made instructions you can apply to views that tells the view two things:

1. How to be inserted into the screen.
2. How to be removed from the screen.

Just a transition on a view will have no effect. 

It’s up to you to also supply an animation. 

It is important to note that a view with a transition and animation will still have no effect. 

No, you have to add the view that has the transition to the screen (and optionally remove it from the screen) to see the effect.

So, every view with a transition needs 3 things:

Example:




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