Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By : Ankur Patel
Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By: Ankur Patel

Overview of this book

Making Swift an open-source language enabled it to share code between a native app and a server. Building a scalable and secure server backend opens up new possibilities, such as building an entire application written in one language—Swift. This book gives you a detailed walk-through of tasks such as developing a native shopping list app with Swift and creating a full-stack backend using Vapor (which serves as an API server for the mobile app). You'll also discover how to build a web server to support dynamic web pages in browsers, thereby creating a rich application experience. You’ll begin by planning and then building a native iOS app using Swift. Then, you'll get to grips with building web pages and creating web views of your native app using Vapor. To put things into perspective, you'll learn how to build an entire full-stack web application and an API server for your native mobile app, followed by learning how to deploy the app to the cloud, and add registration and authentication to it. Once you get acquainted with creating applications, you'll build a tvOS version of the shopping list app and explore how easy is it to create an app for a different platform with maximum code shareability. Towards the end, you’ll also learn how to create an entire app for different platforms in Swift, thus enhancing your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Shopping List app on tvOS


After the announcement of tvOS, Apple TV became another platform that Swift developers could build apps for, just like iPhone or Mac. tvOS is the operating system that runs on Apple TV, and it has a lot more similarities to iOS than macOS. tvOS uses the same frameworks used in iOS, making it more of an extension of an app on the TV platform.

For our Shopping List app, we will build a tvOS target, which will run on Apple TV. This app, just like the iOS version, will prompt the user to log in if they are not already logged in, and if they are, then it will take them to their shopping lists. The best part of making this tvOS app is that we will be able to use almost all from the code of our iOS app. All we need to do is configure the UI for the tvOS app in the tvOS storyboard. To see this in action, let's start building the tvOS app using the following steps:

  1. Open the ShoppingList workspace in Xcode, and select the ShoppingList iOS Project. Inside the TARGETS section...