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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

48.5 Adding the Widget Data

Now that the widget extension has been added to the project, the next step is to add some data and data structures that will provide the basis for the widget timeline. Begin by right-clicking on the Shared folder in the project navigator and selecting the New File… menu option.

From the template selection panel, select the Swift File entry, click on the Next button and name the file WeatherData.swift. Before clicking on the Create button, make sure that the WeatherWidgetExtension entry is enabled in the Targets section of the panel as shown in Figure 48-7 so that the file will be accessible to the extension:

Figure 48-7

As outlined in the previous chapter, each point in the widget timeline is represented by a widget timeline entry instance. Instances of this structure contain the date and time that the entry is to be presented by the widget, together with the data to be displayed. Within the WeatherData.swift file, add a TimelineEntry...