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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

51.4 Testing Widget Configuration

Run the widget extension on a device or simulator and wait for it to load. Once it is running, perform a long press on the widget to display the menu shown in Figure 51-7 below:

Figure 51-7

Select the Edit Widget menu option to display the configuration intent dialog as shown in Figure 51-8:

Figure 51-8

Select the Miami location before tapping on any screen area outside of the dialog. On returning to the home screen, the widget should now be displaying entries from the Miami timeline.

Note that the intent does all of the work involved in presenting the user with the configuration options, automatically adjusting to reflect the type and quantity of options available. If more cities are included in the enumeration, for example, the intent will provide a Choose button which, when tapped, will display a scrollable list of cities from which to choose:

Figure 51-9