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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

26.6 Storing Custom Types

The @AppStorage and @SceneStorage property wrappers only allow values of certain types to be stored. Specifically Bool, Int, Double, String, URL and Data types. This means that any other type that needs to be stored must first be encoded as a Swift Data object in order to be stored and subsequently decoded when retrieved.

Consider, for example, the following struct declaration and initialization:

struct UserName {

    var firstName: String

    var secondName: String

}

 

var username = UserName(firstName: "Mark", secondName: "Wilson")

Because UserName is not a supported type, it is not possible to store our username instance directly into app or scene-based storage. Instead, the instance needs to be encoded and encapsulated into a Data instance before it can be saved. The exact steps to perform the encoding and decoding will depend on the type of the data being stored....