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Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects

By : Frahaan Hussain
Book Image

Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects

By: Frahaan Hussain

Overview of this book

Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects helps you harness the cutting-edge potential of SwiftUI and its innovative and user-friendly approach to crafting user interfaces for Apple platforms with the power of Swift. This book will enhance your UI programming skills with SwiftUI through a project-based methodology, guiding you to create four real-world projects. Starting with a quick recap of Swift and SwiftUI, you’ll gradually develop projects tailored for iPhone, iPad, macOS, and watchOS using Swift and Xcode. You’ll experience SwiftUI’s versatility in action as you build a tax calculator for iPhone and a photo gallery for the iPad, which uses a larger display to enhance the viewing experience. You’ll also create an app store for Mac and, finally, get to grips with the power of SwiftUI for smaller devices such as the Apple Watch by designing a Fitness Companion app. By the end of this book, you'll have built fully functional projects across multiple platforms and gained the expertise needed to excel as a professional SwiftUI developer.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What is Swift?

In this section, we will cover what Swift is, its history, and how it works on a macro level. If you are an expert and just want to read about SwiftUI, feel free to skip this section.

Swift is a programming language created by Apple and the open source community. It is a general-purpose, compiled, and multi-paradigm programming language. It was released in 2014 as a replacement for Apple’s previous language, Objective-C. Due to the fact that Objective-C had remained virtually the same since the early 1980s, it was missing many features that modern languages have. Hence, the creation of Swift began; it has taken the Apple developer ecosystem by storm and is a hugely popular programming language. It is demanded by companies all over the world with excellent remuneration offered to those that know how to leverage its immense features. According to the PYPL index seen in the following figure, Swift is in the top 10 most popular languages, making it a must-have...