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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

4.7 Working with SwiftUI and Live View in Playgrounds

In addition to allowing you to experiment with the Swift programming language, playgrounds may also be used to work with SwiftUI. Not only does this allow SwiftUI views to be prototyped, but when combined with the playground live view feature, it is also possible to run and interact with those views.

To try out SwiftUI and live view, begin by selecting the newly added SwiftUI Example page and modifying it to import both the SwiftUI and PlaygroundSupport frameworks:

import SwiftUI

import PlaygroundSupport

The PlaygroundSupport module provides a number of useful features for playgrounds including the ability to present a live view within the playground timeline.

Beneath the import statements, add the following code (rest assured, all of the techniques used in this example will be thoroughly explained in later chapters):

struct ExampleView: View {

    

    var body: some...