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An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

By : Michele Fadda
Book Image

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

Clean Architecture

In terms of “pre-made” ready meal-style architecture, some might claim to have been inspired by “Clean Architecture” or that they offer an implementation of it. That is extremely strange, suspicious even. I doubt they actually read and, what’s more, understood the book Clean Architecture by Robert Martin.

Sometimes, all these people do is implement at face value an architectural diagram that was given as an example in that book. You should stop asking for recipes and implementing them in a piecemeal fashion.

What Robert Martin really observes in his book, which we can consider a fundamental discovery, is that in “real architecture,” the one related to houses and buildings, we have blueprints that are easily recognizable in terms of the purpose of the buildings they depict. Architecture is about intent.

You can tell the different intentional functions of a building by examining its blueprint.

A cathedral...