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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

App Architecture and SwiftUI Part II – the Theory

This chapter will proceed with an introduction to the interesting topic of modern application architecture in the context of SwiftUI. Bear in mind that what we discuss here in terms of preferred frameworks is specific to the iOS context. In other programming environments, other approaches such as Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) may be perfectly valid. However, what we are really interested in is the rich field of “software architecture” itself, as a concept.

Due to the limited scope of this book, remember that this will be just an introduction to this interesting, vast, and complex topic.

We are going to introduce software architecture, with a focus on theory, and allow you to determine whether certain architecture is well designed.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics.

  • Keeping it light enough
  • Architecture – what is it?
  • Conflict and the role of the architect...