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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

17.9 Previewing on Multiple Device Configurations

Every newly created SwiftUI View file includes an additional declaration at the bottom of the file that resembles the following:

struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {

    static var previews: some View {

        ContentView()

    }

}

This structure, which conforms to the PreviewProvider protocol, returns an instance of the primary view within the file. This instructs Xcode to display the preview for that view within the preview canvas (without this declaration, nothing will appear in the canvas).

By default, the preview canvas shows the user interface on a single device based on the current selection in the run target menu to the right of the run and stop buttons in the Xcode toolbar (as highlighted in Figure 17-20 below). To preview on other device models, one option is to simply change the run target and wait for the preview...