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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

32.2 GridItems

Each row or column in a grid layout is represented by an instance of the GridItem view. In other words, a GridItem instance represents each row in a LazyHGrid layout and each column when using the LazyVGrid view. The GridItem view defines the properties of the row or column in terms of sizing behavior, spacing and alignment. The GridItem view also provides control over the number of rows or columns displayed within a grid and the minimum size to which an item may be reduced to meet those constraints.

GridItems are declared using the following syntax:

GridItem(sizing, spacing: CGFloat?, alignment: <alignment>)

The sizing argument is of type GridItemSize and must be declared as one of the following:

flexible() – The number of rows or columns in the grid will be dictated by the number of GridItem instances in the array passed to LazyVGrid or LazyHGrid view.

adaptive(minimum: CGFloat) – The size of the row or column is adjusted...