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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)

Mock data in Automatic Preview

As we mentioned in the previous section, the Automatic Preview window is a brand new feature for Xcode 11 and macOS Catalina. It allows you to view your UI changes without the need to launch the simulator and reload the application. In this section, we'll take a look at how we can mock data that we will inject into our View in order to preview our UI changes with simulated content, but, more importantly, we'll cover why this is important.

Understanding Automatic Preview

Automatic Preview will no doubt play a big role as you venture into the world of SwiftUI as you'll be able to create your content with the ease and beauty of SwiftUI's declarative syntax and the ability to...