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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

41.1 Siri and SiriKit

Most iOS users will no doubt be familiar with Siri, Apple’s virtual digital assistant. Pressing and holding the home button, or saying “Hey Siri” launches Siri and allows a range of tasks to be performed by speaking in a conversational manner. Selecting the playback of a favorite song, asking for turn-by-turn directions to a location or requesting information about the weather are all examples of tasks that Siri can perform in response to voice commands.

When an app integrates with SiriKit, Siri handles all of the tasks associated with communicating with the user and interpreting the meaning and context of the user’s words. Siri then packages up the user’s request into an intent and passes it to the iOS app. It is then the responsibility of the iOS app to verify that enough information has been provided in the intent to perform the task and to instruct Siri to request any missing information. Once the intent contains all of...