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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

Part 6: Beyond Basics

This part tries to cover some parts that are indispensable for professional development, including the core aspects of data management within SwiftUI applications. We start with an examination of Core Data. You’ll discover its capabilities for local data storage, seamless integration with SwiftUI, and practical applications. We will examine the evolution of concurrency in Swift, transitioning from old-school threading models to a contemporary structured concurrency approach, with a spotlight on the async-await pattern and task management to enhance application performance and responsiveness.

Then, we will introduce SwiftData, Apple’s latest ORM framework, designed to refine data handling in SwiftUI, moving beyond the capabilities of Core Data.

We will then move on to integrating REST services within SwiftUI, a critical component for iOS applications requiring network communication. You’ll acquire skills to make HTTP/HTTPS requests using...