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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

An overview of Unity and RealityKit

Unity is a third-party 3D game engine and can be downloaded from https://unity.com. Unity is normally used to produce high-end 3D games. It is quite expensive if used professionally within a corporation, but there is a free tier license available for students and small businesses or individual developers. Unity is programmed in C#, not Swift, and it includes its own development environment.

Unity 3D is a powerful and widely used 3D engine and development platform that enables developers to build immersive real-time 3D applications, games, and simulations. It’s well known for its versatility across various platforms, including consoles, mobile devices, desktops, and the web. Unity has introduced what they call “PolySpatial technology,” which is designed to power Unity content within the shared space on Apple Vision Pro. This includes support for immersive applications that can run side by side and windowed applications, which...