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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

Persistence in SwiftUI with Core Data and SwiftData

Core Data is one of the most essential Apple frameworks in the iOS and macOS ecosystem. Core Data provides persistence, which means it can save data outside the app’s memory, and the data you save can be retrieved after you restart your app. Given its importance, it’s not a surprise that Apple has implemented some extensions for Core Data to make it work nicely with SwiftUI. In Core Data language, a stored object is an instance of NSManagedObject, which conforms to the ObservableObject protocol so that it can be observed directly by a SwiftUI view. Also, NSManagedObjectContext is injected into the environment of the view hierarchy so that SwiftUI views can access it to read and change its managed objects. A very common feature of Core Data is that you can fetch objects from its repository. For this purpose, SwiftUI provides the @FetchRequest property wrapper, which can be used in a view to load data. When you create...