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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

Iterating views

In this section, I will describe how you can display multiple views, as you previously would have done in UIKit using UITableViews and UICollectionViews.

In UIKit, you would have, for the purpose of visualizing tables and grids, created derived classes inheriting from UITableViewControllers and UICollectionViewControllers. To control their appearance and behavior, you would have used properties and delegate methods.

In SwiftUI, you have several ways to achieve this result. The first is iterating, that is, repeating views with a loop. You can achieve this with the specialized view called ForEach. ForEach does not have the limitation of 10 maximum views that affect views entered manually.

For example, the following fragment of code will create a form containing 90 subviews:

Form {
         ForEach (0..<90) { number in
             Text("Hello...