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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

20.1 SwiftUI Views

User interface layouts are composed in SwiftUI by using, creating and combining views. An important first step is to understand what is meant by the term “view”. Views in SwiftUI are declared as structures that conform to the View protocol. In order to conform with the View protocol, a structure is required to contain a body property and it is within this body property that the view is declared.

SwiftUI includes a wide range of built-in views that can be used when constructing a user interface including text label, button, text field, menu, toggle and layout manager views. Each of these is a self-contained instance that complies with the View protocol. When building an app with SwiftUI you will use these views to create custom views of your own which, when combined, constitute the appearance and behavior of your user interface.

These custom views will range from subviews that encapsulate a reusable subset of view components (perhaps a secure text...