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SwiftUI Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giordano Scalzo, Edgar Nzokwe
Book Image

SwiftUI Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Giordano Scalzo, Edgar Nzokwe

Overview of this book

SwiftUI provides an innovative and simple way to build beautiful user interfaces (UIs) for all Apple platforms, from iOS and macOS through to watchOS and tvOS, using the Swift programming language. In this recipe-based cookbook, you’ll cover the foundations of SwiftUI as well as the new SwiftUI 3 features introduced in iOS 15 and explore a range of essential techniques and concepts that will help you through the development process. The cookbook begins by explaining how to use basic SwiftUI components. Once you’ve learned the core concepts of UI development, such as Views, Controls, Lists, and ScrollViews, using practical implementations in Swift, you'll advance to adding useful features to SwiftUI using drawings, built-in shapes, animations, and transitions. You’ll understand how to integrate SwiftUI with exciting new components in the Apple development ecosystem, such as Combine for managing events and Core Data for managing app data. Finally, you’ll write iOS, macOS, and watchOS apps by sharing the same SwiftUI codebase. By the end of this SwiftUI book, you'll have discovered a range of simple, direct solutions to common problems encountered when building SwiftUI apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Chapter 1: Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls

SwiftUI was launched during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June 2019. Since then, its popularity has kept increasing as it has been adopted more into the Apple developer community. Apple also releases updates every year, adding new and exciting capabilities to SwiftUI.

SwiftUI ditches UIKit concepts such as Auto Layout for an easier-to-use declarative programming model. It allows the fast and easy creation of applications that work across Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, and macOS).

Are you still wondering whether you should start learning SwiftUI? Here are a few reasons to convince you:

  • SwiftUI apps can work alongside UIKit apps: You can slowly convert your app's user interface (UI) to SwiftUI, one screen at a time.
  • Industry adoption: SwiftUI adoption among most companies will take time. Getting a head start and learning SwiftUI now improves your future marketability. SwiftUI today is...