Settings Entries

Fundamentally, the first thing we need is a way to describe a particular settings entry. It is not sufficient to just know the value of the settings; we also need a title, a subtitle, maybe some help, or an icon. We will summarize this information into a SettingsEntry struct. This struct will also contain a keypath that points at the individual value this setting refers to.

struct SettingsEntry {

   let keyPath: AnyKeyPath

   let title: String

   let subtitle: String

   let icon: UIImage

}

For the sake of simplicity, we will use the following, shorter struct in the upcoming code examples:

struct SettingsEntry {

   let keyPath: AnyKeyPath

   let title: String

}

Note that the type of the keypath is AnyKeyPath. We have to do that because our types can be anything: \Settings.privacySettings, \PrivacySettings.passcode, or \ProfileSettings.displayName.