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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

41.3 Siri Shortcuts

Siri Shortcuts allow frequently performed activities within an app to be stored as a shortcut and triggered via Siri using a pre-defined phrase. If a user regularly checked a specific stock price within a financial app, for example, that task could be saved as a shortcut and performed at any time via Siri voice command without the need to manually launch the app. Although lacking the power and flexibility of SiriKit domain-based integration, Siri Shortcuts provide a way for key features to be made accessible via Siri for apps that would otherwise be unable to provide any Siri integration.

An app can provide an “Add to Siri” button that allows a particular task to be configured as a shortcut. Alternatively, an app can make shortcut suggestions by donating actions to Siri. The user can review any shortcut suggestions within the Shortcuts app and choose those to be added as shortcuts.

Based on user behavior patterns, Siri will also suggest shortcuts...