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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)
56
Index

18.1 SwiftUI App Hierarchy

When considering the structure of a SwiftUI application, it helps to view a typical hierarchy visually. Figure 18-1, for example, illustrates the hierarchy of a simple SwiftUI app:

Figure 18-1

Before continuing, it is important to distinguish the difference between the term “app” and the “App” element outlined in the above figure. The software applications that we install and run on our mobile devices have come to be referred to as “apps”. In this chapter reference will be made both to these apps and the App element in the above figure. To avoid confusion, we will use the term “application” to refer to the completed, installed and running app, while referring to the App element as “App”. The remainder of the book will revert to using the more common “app” when talking about applications.