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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

44.14 Adding a Data Class to SiriPhoto

When SiriKit launches the SiriPhoto app in response to a successful photo search, it will pass the app an NSUserActivity instance. The app will need to handle this activity and use the intent response it contains to extract the matching photo from the library. The photo image will, in turn, need to be stored as a published observable property so that the content view is always displaying the latest photo. These tasks will be performed in a new Swift class declaration named PhotoHandler.

Add this new class to the project by right-clicking on the Shared folder in the project navigator panel and selecting the New File… menu option. In the template selection panel, choose the Swift File option before clicking on the Next button. Name the new class PhotoHandler and click on the Create button.

With the PhotoHandler.swift file loaded into the code editor, modify it as follows:

import SwiftUI

import Combine

import Intents

import...