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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

26.2 The @AppStorage Property Wrapper

The @SceneStorage property wrapper allows each individual scene within an app to have its own copy of stored data. In other words, the data stored by one scene is not accessible to any other scenes in the app (even other instances of the same scene). The @AppStorage property wrapper, on the other hand, is used to store data that is universally available throughout the entire app.

App Storage is built on top of UserDefaults, a feature which has been available in iOS for many years. Primarily provided as a way for apps to access and store default user preferences (such as language preferences or color choices), UserDefaults can also be used to store small amounts of data needed by the app in the form of key-value pairs.

As with scene storage, the @AppStorage property wrapper requires a string value to serve as a key and may be declared as follows:

@AppStorage("mystore") var mytext: String = ""

By default, data will...