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An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

By : Michele Fadda
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An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

By: Michele Fadda

Overview of this book

– SwiftUI transforms Apple Platform app development with intuitive Swift code for seamless UI design. – Explore SwiftUI's declarative programming: define what the app should look like and do, while the OS handles the heavy lifting. – Hands-on approach covers SwiftUI fundamentals and often-omitted parts in introductory guides. – Progress from creating views and modifiers to intricate, responsive UIs and advanced techniques for complex apps. – Focus on new features in asynchronous programming and architecture patterns for efficient, modern app design. – Learn UIKit and SwiftUI integration, plus how to run tests for SwiftUI applications. – Gain confidence to harness SwiftUI's full potential for building professional-grade apps across Apple devices.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Simple Views
5
Part 2: Scrollable Views
8
Part 3: SwiftUI Navigation
11
Part 4: Graphics and Animation
14
Part 5: App Architecture
17
Part 6: Beyond Basics

NavigationSplitView – multicolumn navigation

NavigationSplitView is a view that presents views in two or three columns, where selections in leading columns control presentations in subsequent columns.

On large-screen devices, such as iPad and Mac, NavigationSplitView will represent detail-view navigation on multiple columns to better exploit large screens but will automatically default to a normal navigation stack when the screen width is compact (normal iPhone width in vertical format).

The simplest multicolumn view you can obtain in this way is simply a two-column static view, like in the following code fragment, which would work on an iPad:

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack{
            NavigationSplitView {
                ...