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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

27.3 Using the Alignment Guides Tool

The best way to gain familiarity with alignment guides is to experiment with the various settings and options. Fortunately, the SwiftUI Lab has created a useful learning tool for trying out the various alignment settings. To use the tool, begin by creating a new Xcode SwiftUI project named AlignmentTool, open the ContentView.swift file and remove all the existing contents.

Next, open a web browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://bit.ly/2MCioyl

This page contains the source code for a tool in a file named alignment-guides-tool.swift. Select and copy the entire source code from the file and paste it into the ContentView.swift file in Xcode. Once loaded, compile and run the app on an iPad device or simulator in landscape mode where it will appear as shown in Figure 27-10:

Figure 27-10

Turn on the Include Implicitly View option to see what a view will do without any alignment guides and use the yellow bars under each view...