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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

30. An Overview of List, OutlineGroup and DisclosureGroup

The preceding chapters explored the use of the SwiftUI List view to display information to users in an ordered manner. Lists provide a way to present large amounts of information to the user in a navigable and scrollable format.

The features of the List covered so far, however, have not introduced any way to display hierarchical information within a list other than displaying an entirely new screen to the user in response to list item selections. A standard list also has the potential to overwhelm the user with options through which to scroll, with no way to hide sub-groups of items to ease navigation.

In this chapter, we will explore some features that were introduced into SwiftUI with iOS 14 which address these issues, including some enhancements to the List view together with the OutlineGroup and DisclosureGroup views. Once these topics have been covered, the next chapter entitled “A SwiftUI List, OutlineGroup...