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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

21.5 Traditional vs. Lazy Stacks

So far in this chapter we have only covered the HStack, VStack and ZStack views. Although the stack examples shown so far contain relatively few child views, it is possible for a stack to contain large quantities of views. This is particularly common when a stack is embedded in a ScrollView. ScrollView is a view which allows the user to scroll through content that extends beyond the visible area of either the containing view or device the screen.

When using the traditional HStack and VStack views, the system will create all the views child views at initialization, regardless of whether those views are currently visible to the user. While this may not be an issue for most requirements, this can lead to performance degradation in situations where a stack has thousands of child views.

To address this issue, SwiftUI also provides “lazy” vertical and horizontal stack views. These views (named LazyVStack and LazyHStack) use exactly the...