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Learn SwiftUI

By : Chris Barker
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Learn SwiftUI

By: Chris Barker

Overview of this book

SwiftUI is the new and powerful interface toolkit that lets you design and build iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps using declarative syntax. It is a powerful way to develop the UI elements of applications, which would normally be tightly coupled to application logic. Learn SwiftUI will get you up to speed with the framework and cross-device UI development in no time. Complete with detailed explanations and practical examples, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you the fundamentals of the SwiftUI toolkit. You'll learn how to build a powerful iOS and iPadOS application that can be reused for deployment on watchOS. As you progress, you'll delve into UI and unit testing in iOS apps, along with learning how to test your SwiftUI code for multiple devices. The book will also show you how to integrate SwiftUI features such as data binding and network requests into your current application logic. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build a cross-device application using the SwiftUI framework and Swift programming.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Migrating UIKit ready for SwiftUI

So far, we've looked at a direct comparison between UIKit's TableView() against SwiftUI's ListView, but as common as TableViews are, there are far more options to explore when it comes to migrating to SwiftUI.

Now, due to SwiftUI being new to the scene, not every UIKit control has a SwiftUI equivalent. However, if you ever need to jump back to a particular UIKit control, please refer to the Using the Representable Protocol section in Chapter 8, Networking and Linking to Your Existing App Logic. We'll cover everything else in this section.

UIStackView

First introduced in iOS 8, UIStackView was welcomed with open arms as it allowed for a more flexible layout hierarchy than...