--- title: Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit | daily.dev description: When styling a MapPolyline in SwiftUI MapKit, Xcode suggests using linearGradient() which requires screen-space start and end points — but this rarely produces... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit | daily.dev og:description: When styling a MapPolyline in SwiftUI MapKit, Xcode suggests using linearGradient() which requires screen-space start and end points — but this rarely produces... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sPVivzrcF.png og:image:alt: Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit **[Nil Coalescing](https://daily.dev/sources/nilcoalescing)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When styling a MapPolyline in SwiftUI MapKit, Xcode suggests using linearGradient() which requires screen-space start and end points — but this rarely produces the desired effect. By passing a Gradient directly to the stroke() modifier instead, the gradient automatically follows the polyline along the map, simplifying the code and producing a more visually accurate result. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift), [#swiftui](https://daily.dev/tags/swiftui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf"},"datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:15:09.034Z","dateModified":"2026-08-02T07:33:53.987Z","description":"When styling a MapPolyline in SwiftUI MapKit, Xcode suggests using linearGradient() which requires screen-space start and end points — but this rarely produces...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a86b56683b3e54af55dbd095e363a168?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a86b56683b3e54af55dbd095e363a168?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Nil Coalescing","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Nil Coalescing","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--rcEu6sag--/f_auto,q_auto/v1785654899/logos/nilcoalescing?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/nilcoalescing"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-gradient-on-polylines-in-swiftui-mapkit-spvivzrcf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"swift,swiftui","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nil Coalescing","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/nilcoalescing"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Creating gradient on polylines in SwiftUI MapKit"}]} ```