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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

54.4 Preparing the Storyboard

Within Xcode, select the Main.storyboard file so that it loads into the Interface Builder tool. As currently configured, the storyboard consists of a single view controller scene as shown in Figure 54-2:

Figure 54-2

So that the user can navigate back to the current scene, the view controller needs to be embedded into a Navigation Controller. Select the current scene by clicking on the View Controller button circled in the figure above so that the scene highlights with a blue outline and select the Editor -> Embed In -> Navigation Controller menu option. At this point the storyboard canvas should resemble Figure 54-3:

Figure 54-3

The first SwiftUI integration will require a button which, when clicked, will show a new view controller containing the SwiftUI View. Display the Library panel by clicking on the button highlighted in Figure 54-4 and locate and drag a Button view onto the view controller scene canvas:

Figure 54...