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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

41.5 How SiriKit Integration Works

Siri integration is performed via the iOS extension mechanism. Extensions are added as targets to the app project within Xcode in the same way as other extension types. SiriKit provides two types of extension, the key one being the Intents Extension. This extension contains an intent handler which is subclassed from the INExtension class of the Intents framework and contains the methods called by Siri during the process of communicating with the user. It is the responsibility of the intent handler to verify that Siri has collected all of the required information from the user, and then to execute the task defined in the intent.

The second extension type is the UI Extension. This extension is optional and comprises a storyboard file and a subclass of the IntentViewController class. When provided, Siri will use this UI when presenting information to the user. This can be useful for including additional information within the Siri user interface...