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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

32.6 Working with Adaptive GridItems

So far, we have seen how the flexible GridItem size setting allows us to define how many columns or rows appear in a grid. The adaptive setting, however, configures the grid view to automatically display as many rows or columns as it can fit into the space occupied by the view. To use adaptive sizing, modify the gridItems array to contain a single adaptive item as follows:

private var gridItems = [GridItem(.adaptive(minimum: 50))]

This change will result in the grid displaying as many columns as possible with the restriction that the column width cannot be less than 50dp. The following figure demonstrates a partial example of this change as it appears on an iPhone 11 in portrait orientation:

Figure 32-4

Figure 32-5, on the other hand, shows the same grid on an iPhone 11 in landscape orientation. Note that the grid has automatically adapted the number of columns to occupy the wider viewing area:

Figure 32-5