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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

41.8 The Handle Method

The handle method is where the activity associated with the intent is performed. Once the task is completed, a response is passed to Siri. The form of the response will depend on the type of activity performed. For example, a photo search activity will return a count of the number of matching photos, while a send message activity will indicate whether the message was sent successfully.

The handle method may also return a continueInApp response. This tells Siri that the remainder of the task is to be performed within the main app. On receiving this response, Siri will launch the app, passing in an NSUserActivity object. NSUserActivity is a class that enables the status of an app to be saved and restored. In iOS 10 and later, the NSUserActivity class has an additional property that allows an NSInteraction object to be stored along with the app state. Siri uses this interaction property to store the NSInteraction object for the session and passes it to the main...