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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

43.3 Using the configure Method

The files for this Intent UI Extension added above can be found within the Project navigator panel under the SiriDemoIntentUI folder.

Included within the SiriDemoIntentUI extension is a storyboard file named MainInterface.storyboard. For those unfamiliar with how user interfaces were built prior to the introduction of SwiftUI, this is an Interface Builder file. When the configure method is used to customize the user interface, this scene is used to display additional content which will appear directly above the standard SiriKit provided UI content. This layout is sometimes referred to as the Siri Snippet.

Although not visible by default, at the top of the message panel presented by Siri is the area represented by the UI Extension. Specifically, this displays the scene defined in the MainInterface.storyboard file of the SiriDemoIntentUI extension folder. The lower section of the panel is the default user interface provided by Siri for this particular...