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Swift Cookbook. - Second Edition

By : Keith Moon, Chris Barker
Book Image

Swift Cookbook. - Second Edition

By: Keith Moon, Chris Barker

Overview of this book

Swift is an exciting, multi-platform, general-purpose programming language, and with this book, you'll explore the features of its latest version, Swift 5.3. The book begins with an introduction to the basic building blocks of Swift 5.3, its syntax, and the functionalities of Swift constructs. You’ll then discover how Swift Playgrounds provide an ideal platform to write, execute, and debug your Swift code. As you advance through the chapters, the book will show you how to bundle variables into tuples or sets, order your data with an array, store key-value pairs with dictionaries, and use property observers. You’ll also get to grips with the decision-making and control structures in Swift, examine advanced features such as generics and operators, and explore functionalities outside of the standard library. Once you’ve learned how to build iOS applications using UIKit, you'll find out how to use Swift for server-side programming, run Swift on Linux, and investigate Vapor. Finally, you'll discover some of the newest features of Swift 5.3 using SwiftUI and Combine to build adaptive and reactive applications, and find out how to use Swift to build and integrate machine learning models along with Apple’s Vision Framework. By the end of this Swift book, you'll have discovered solutions to boost your productivity while developing code using Swift 5.3.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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About Packt

Function builders, property wrappers, and opaque return types

SwiftUI certainly brings a lot to the table, especially as it's been built from the ground up using Swift at its core. This itself has a plethora of benefits, which include making use of some of the features we are about to cover in this section.

Getting ready

For this section, you'll need the latest version of Xcode available from the Mac App Store.

How to do it...

  1. Continuing with our existing Playground project, let's take another look at how things "stack up". We'll start by taking another look at our VStack:
VStack {
Text("Swift Cookbook")
Button(action: {
print("Set Action Here...")
}, label: {
Text("I'm going to perform an action")
})
}

Here is a block of code, which in SwiftUI terms is a View to be displayed. The view is a vertical stack—think UITableView, but at the same time don't think UITableView, as it's...