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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

49. Supporting WidgetKit Size Families

In the chapter titled “Building Widgets with SwiftUI and WidgetKit”, we learned that a widget is able to appear in small, medium and large sizes. The project created in the previous chapter included a widget view designed to fit within the small size format. Since the widget did not specify the supported sizes, it would still be possible to select a large or medium sized widget from the gallery and place it on the home screen. In those larger formats, however, the widget content would have filled only a fraction of the available widget space. If larger widget sizes are to be supported, the widget should be designed to make full use of the available space.

In this chapter, the WidgetDemo project created in the previous chapter will be modified to add support for the medium widget size.