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SwiftUI Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Juan C. Catalan
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Book Image

SwiftUI Cookbook - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Juan C. Catalan

Overview of this book

SwiftUI is the modern way to build user interfaces for iOS, macOS, and watchOS. It provides a declarative and intuitive way to create beautiful and interactive user interfaces. The new edition of this comprehensive cookbook includes a fully updated repository for SwiftUI 5, iOS 17, Xcode 15, and Swift 5.9. With this arsenal, it teaches you everything you need to know to build beautiful and interactive user interfaces with SwiftUI 5, from the basics to advanced topics like custom modifiers, animations, and state management. In this new edition, you will dive into the world of creating powerful data visualizations with a new chapter on Swift Charts and how to seamlessly integrate charts into your SwiftUI apps. Further, you will be able to unleash your creativity with advanced controls, including multi-column tables and two-dimensional layouts. You can explore new modifiers for text, images, and shapes that give you more control over the appearance of your views. You will learn how to develop apps for multiple platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more. With expert insights, real-world examples, and a recipe-based approach, you’ll be equipped to build remarkable SwiftUI apps that stand out in today’s competitive market.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

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In this chapter, we'll learn how to manage the state of single or multiple views. In the declarative world of SwiftUI, you should consider views as functions of their state, whereas in the imperative world of UIKit, you should tell a view what it must do depending on the state. In SwiftUI, views react to changes. SwiftUI has three ways of reaching these goals:

  • Using the binding property wrappers that SwiftUI provides
  • Using Observation, a new framework introduced in iOS 17
  • Using Combine, the framework that Apple introduced to implement functional reactive programming

We will learn about the first two mechanisms in this chapter and in Chapter 11, Driving SwiftUI with Combine, we'll learn how to use Combine to drive changes in SwiftUI views.Property wrappers are a way to decorate a property and were introduced in Swift 5.1. There are four different ways of using the binding property wrappers in SwiftUI:

  • @State...