#365DaysIOSAccessibility

Day 126

Add Large Content Viewer to custom bars

21 Sep 2022

Dynamic TypeLarge Content VieweriOS

By

Dani Devesa Derksen-Staats

You should really try to support Dynamic Type. If you can’t for some reason, and you want to fall back to the Large Content Viewer, you can do so. I’d limit it to “sticky” bars. Maybe you have a custom tab bar, navigation bar, or similar?

Check the UILargeContentViewerItem protocol. Most UIKit components conform to it already. You'll just need to set showsLargeContentViewer to true and add a UILargeContentViewerInteraction to your component.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uilargecontentvieweritem

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Tap and hold bar items at large text sizes

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Preview Dynamic Type with SwiftUI variants

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Day 218

Support accessibility Dynamic Type sizes

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