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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

43.4 Using the configureView Method

Unlike the configure method, the configureView method allows each section of the default user interface to be replaced with custom content and view layout.

SiriKit considers the default layout to be a vertical stack in which each row is represented by a parameter. For each layer of the stack (starting at the top and finishing at the bottom of the layout) the configureView method is called, passed information about the corresponding parameters and given the opportunity to provide a custom layout to be displayed within the corresponding stack row of the Siri user interface. The method is also passed a completion handler to be called with the appropriate configuration information to be passed back to Siri.

The parameters passed to the method take the form of INParameter instances. It is the responsibility of the configureView method to find out if a parameter is one for which it wants to provide a custom layout. It does this by creating local...