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SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Do you want to create iOS apps with SwiftUI, Xcode 12, and Swift 5.3, and want to publish it on the app store? This book helps you achieve these skills with a step-by-step approach. This course first walks you through the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment together and introduces Swift Playgrounds to learn and experiment with Swift—specifically, the Swift 5.3 programming language. After establishing key concepts of SwiftUI and project architecture, this course provides a guided tour of Xcode in SwiftUI development mode. The book also covers the creation of custom SwiftUI views and explains how these views are combined to create user interface layouts, including the use of stacks, frames, and forms. One of the more important skills you’ll learn is how to integrate SwiftUI views into existing UIKit-based projects and explain the integration of UIKit code into SwiftUI. Finally, the book explains how to package up a completed app and upload it to the app store for publication. Along the way, the topics covered in the book are put into practice through detailed tutorials, the source code for which is also available for download. By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own apps for iOS 14 using SwiftUI and publish it on the app store. The code files for the book can be found here: https://www.ebookfrenzy.com/retail/swiftui-ios14/
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
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Index

17.6 The Preview Toolbar

The preview toolbar (marked D in Figure 17-8 above and shown below) provides a range of options for changing the preview panel:

Figure 17-10

By default, the preview displays a static representation of the user interface. To test the user interface in a running version of the app, simply click on the Live Preview button (A). Xcode will then build the app and run it within the preview canvas where you can interact with it as you would in a simulator or on a physical device. When in Live Preview mode, the button changes to a stop button which can be used to exit live mode.

The current version of the app may also be previewed on an attached physical device by clicking on the Preview on Device button (B). As with the preview canvas, the running app on the device will update dynamically as changes are made to the code in the editor.

The Inspect Preview button (C) displays the panel shown in Figure 17-11 below allowing properties of the canvas to...