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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

39.1 Documents in Apps

If you have used iOS for an appreciable amount of time, the chances are good that you will have encountered the built-in Files app. The Files app provides a way to browse, select and manage the Documents stored both on the local device file system and iCloud storage in addition to third-party providers such as Google Drive. Documents in this context can include just about any file type including plain text, image, data and binary files. Figure 39-1 shows a typical browsing session within the iOS Files app:

Figure 39-1

The purpose of the DocumentGroup scene is to allow the same capabilities provided by the Files app to be built into SwiftUI apps, in addition to the ability to create new files.

Document support can be built into an app with relatively little work. In fact, Xcode includes a project template specifically for this task which performs much of the setup work for you. Before attempting to work with DocumentGroups, however, there are some...