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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

45.1 An Overview of Siri Shortcuts

A Siri shortcut is essentially a commonly used feature of an app that can be invoked by the user via a chosen phrase. The app for a fast-food restaurant might, for example, allow the user to order a favorite lunch item by simply using the phrase “Order Lunch” from within Siri. Once a shortcut has been configured, iOS learns the usage patterns of the shortcut and will begin to place that shortcut in the Siri Suggestions area on the device at appropriate times of the day. If the user uses the lunch ordering shortcut at lunch times on weekdays, the system will suggest the shortcut at that time of day.

A shortcut can be configured within an app by providing the user with an Add to Siri button at appropriate places in the app. Our hypothetical restaurant app might, for example, include an Add to Siri button on the order confirmation page which, when selected, will allow the user to add that order as a shortcut and provide a phrase to Siri...