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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)

Creating SwiftUI widgets

Widgets show glanceable and relevant content from an app on an iOS device's home screen or the notification center in macOS. Examples of the most popular widgets are Apple's weather and stock apps.

There are two kinds of widgets configuration options. StaticConfiguration is used for widgets with no user-configurable properties, such as stock market apps, while IntentConfiguration is used for apps with user-configurable properties such as static widgets and intent widgets. StaticConfiguratoin widgets are not customizable, while IntentConfiguration widgets can be customized.

In this recipe, we'll create a static widget that displays a list of tasks sorted by priority. Each task will be displayed for 10 seconds to give the user enough time to complete the task (we are assuming the user has super speed and can do everything in 10 seconds).

Getting ready

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