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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

3.6 Summary

This book was written using Xcode version 12.2 and the iOS 14 SDK running on macOS 11.0 (Big Sur). Before beginning SwiftUI development, the first step is to install Xcode and configure it with your Apple ID via the accounts section of the Preferences screen. Once these steps have been performed, a development certificate must be generated which will be used to sign apps developed within Xcode. This will allow you to build and test your apps on physical iOS-based devices.

When you are ready to upload your finished app to the App Store, you will also need to generate a distribution certificate, a process requiring membership in the Apple Developer Program as outlined in the previous chapter

Having installed the iOS SDK and successfully launched Xcode 12 we can now look at Xcode in more detail, starting with Playgrounds.