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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

48.1 About the WidgetDemo Project

The project created in this tutorial can be thought of as the early prototype of a weather app designed to teach children about weather storms. The objective is to provide the user with a list of severe weather systems (tropical storms, thunderstorms etc.) and, when a storm type is selected, display a second screen providing a description of the weather system.

A second part of the app is intended to provide real-time updates on severe weather occurring in different locations around the world. When a storm is reported, a widget will be updated with information about the type and location of the storm, together with the prevailing temperature. When the widget is tapped by the user, the app will open the screen containing information about that storm category.

Since this app is an early prototype, however, it will only provide weather updates from two cities, and that data will be simulated rather than obtained from a real weather service. The...