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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

26.1 The @SceneStorage Property Wrapper

The @SceneStorage property wrapper is used to store small amounts of data within the scope of individual app scene instances and is ideal for saving and restoring the state of a screen between app launches. Consider a situation where a user, partway through entering information into a form within an app, is interrupted by a phone call or text message, and places the app into the background. The user subsequently forgets to return to the app, complete the form and save the entered information. If the background app were to exit (either because of a device restart, the user terminating the app, or the system killing the app to free up resources) the partial information entered into the form would be lost. Situations such as this can be avoided, however, by using scene storage to retain and restore the data.

Scene storage is declared using the @SceneStorage property wrapper together with a key string value which is used internally to store the...