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TL;DR

A SwiftUI charting package (area, line, bar, pie, donut, radar, sparkline) rendered with a distinctive ordered-dithering texture instead of flat colors.

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  root((SwiftDitherKit))
    What it does
      Dithered charts
      Area line bar pie
      No dependencies
    Tech stack
      Swift
      SwiftUI
    Use cases
      App charts
      Interactive selection
    Audience
      Swift developers

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Add textured, dithered-style charts (area, line, bar, pie, radar) to a SwiftUI app.

REASON 2

Build an interactive chart where tapping a bar, line, or slice selects it.

REASON 3

Show animated chart entrances with idle sparkle effects that respect Reduce Motion.

What's in the stack?

SwiftSwiftUI

How it stacks up

markunthank/swiftditherkitabdullahselek/swiftyproxykitavlp12/alis-studio-mobile
Stars111111
LanguageSwiftSwiftSwift
Last pushed2018-03-24
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatehard
Complexity2/53/53/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires Swift 6.0+ and a recent Apple OS (iOS 17 / macOS 14 or newer).

You can use, modify, and distribute this freely, including for commercial purposes, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

SwiftDitherKit is a Swift package that brings a collection of charts to SwiftUI apps, rendered with a visual style called ordered dithering, which gives the charts a distinctive stippled or textured look instead of plain flat colors. It includes area charts, line charts, bar charts, pie charts, donut charts, radar charts, and small sparkline charts, and it has no other libraries it depends on to run. The project is an unofficial port of an existing web based charting tool called Dither Kit, rebuilt natively for SwiftUI. To use it, a developer adds the package to an Xcode project or a Swift package by pointing to its GitHub repository address. It requires Swift 6.0 or newer and a fairly recent version of Apple's platforms, specifically iOS 17, macOS 14, tvOS 17, or visionOS 1. Once added, you build charts by describing your data as simple structures with labels and values, choosing a color and style for each data series, and passing them to the chart view you want, such as an area chart or a pie chart. Charts support tapping to select a specific bar, line, or slice, and that selection can either be controlled by your own app code or left for the chart to manage on its own. Colors can come from a built in set of seven options or be defined using your own RGB values or a hex code. The charts also include small entrance animations and occasional idle sparkle effects when they first appear or when their data changes, and these effects respect a user's system setting for reduced motion by switching to a simple fade instead. This project is aimed at Swift and SwiftUI developers who want charts with a distinctive, textured visual style rather than the standard flat look most charting libraries use. It includes example projects and documentation covering its public interface. SwiftDitherKit is released under the MIT license.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Help me add SwiftDitherKit to my Swift package and render a DitherAreaChart with sample data.
Prompt 2
Show me how to build a DitherPieChart and DitherRadarChart using SwiftDitherKit.
Prompt 3
Explain how selection binding works in SwiftDitherKit's chart views.
Prompt 4
Walk me through customizing SwiftDitherKit's chart colors with a custom hex palette.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is swiftditherkit?

A SwiftUI charting package (area, line, bar, pie, donut, radar, sparkline) rendered with a distinctive ordered-dithering texture instead of flat colors.

What language is swiftditherkit written in?

Mainly Swift. The stack also includes Swift, SwiftUI.

What license does swiftditherkit use?

You can use, modify, and distribute this freely, including for commercial purposes, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is swiftditherkit to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is swiftditherkit for?

Mainly developer.

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