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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By : Ankur Patel
Book Image

Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

By: Ankur Patel

Overview of this book

Making Swift an open-source language enabled it to share code between a native app and a server. Building a scalable and secure server backend opens up new possibilities, such as building an entire application written in one language—Swift. This book gives you a detailed walk-through of tasks such as developing a native shopping list app with Swift and creating a full-stack backend using Vapor (which serves as an API server for the mobile app). You'll also discover how to build a web server to support dynamic web pages in browsers, thereby creating a rich application experience. You’ll begin by planning and then building a native iOS app using Swift. Then, you'll get to grips with building web pages and creating web views of your native app using Vapor. To put things into perspective, you'll learn how to build an entire full-stack web application and an API server for your native mobile app, followed by learning how to deploy the app to the cloud, and add registration and authentication to it. Once you get acquainted with creating applications, you'll build a tvOS version of the shopping list app and explore how easy is it to create an app for a different platform with maximum code shareability. Towards the end, you’ll also learn how to create an entire app for different platforms in Swift, thus enhancing your productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Sharing code between iOS and tvOS


To share code between our iOS and tvOS app, we will need to let Xcode know the Swift files that need to be shared across different targets. This is easy to do by simply checking the targets a Swift file should be part of when compiling and building the product:

Select one of the Swift files inside the ShoppingList app folder, and you should see ShoppingList and ShoppingListTV under Target Membership inside File Inspector on the right side of the screen. Check the ShoppingListTV target. Now, go through the remaining Swift files inside the ShoppingList iOS app, except for AppDelegate.swift, and check the ShoppingListTV target, as we will share all of this code with the tvOS app. Once you are done, try building the app. You should encounter a bunch of errors, as our code will not work with tvOS just out-of-the-box. We will need to tweak some lines of code, as some APIs available in iOS are not available in tvOS. One such example is the usage of prefersLargeTitles...