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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

51.2 Configuring the Intent Definition

The next step is to configure the intent definition which will be used to present the user with widget configuration choices. When the WeatherWidget extension was added to the project, the “Include Configuration Intent” option was enabled, causing Xcode to generate a definition file named WeatherWidget.intentdefinition located in the WeatherWidget project folder. Select this file to load it into the intent definition editor where it will appear as shown in Figure 51-1:

Figure 51-1

Begin by making sure that the Configuration intent (marked A in Figure 51-1 above) is selected. This is the intent that was created by Xcode and will be referenced as ConfigurationIntent in the WeatherWidget.swift file. Additional intents may be added to the definition by clicking on the ‘+’ button (D) and selecting New Intent from the menu.

The Category menu (B) must be set to View to allow the intent to display a dialog to the...