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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

30.2 Hierarchies and Disclosure in SwiftUI Lists

The previous chapter demonstrated the use of the List component to display so called “flat”, non-hierarchical data to the user. In fact, the List component can also present hierarchically structured data. It does this by traversing the data to identify the child elements in a data structure, and then presenting the resulting hierarchy visually. Figure 30-2 for example, shows the hierarchical data illustrated in Figure 30-1 above presented within a List view:

Figure 30-2

Clearly, this provides a better way to present the data to the user without having to traverse multiple depths of list navigation. Note also that disclosure controls are provided in the list to hide and show individual branches of data. Figure 30-3, for example, shows how the disclosure controls (highlighted) have been used to collapse the Toyota, Volvo and electric car data branches:

Figure 30-3

Clicking on a collapsed disclosure control...