
SwiftUI Cookbook
Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps
Packt Publishing
Published on 19. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
614 pages
978-1-83898-186-0 (ISBN)
Description
Unleash the power of declarative programming in SwiftUI with practical recipes for building cross-platform Apple applications for iOS 14, macOS, and watchOS using Swift 5.3, Xcode 12, and SwiftUI 2.0
Key Features
Apply the declarative programming paradigm for building cross-platform UIs for Apple devices
Learn to integrate UIKit, Core Data, Sign in with Apple, and Firebase with SwiftUI
Adopt the new SwiftUI 2.0 features to build visually appealing UIs at speed
Book DescriptionSwiftUI is an innovative and simple way to build beautiful user interfaces (UIs) for all Apple platforms, right from iOS and macOS through to watchOS and tvOS, using the Swift programming language. In this recipe-based book, you'll work with SwiftUI and explore a range of essential techniques and concepts that will help you through the development process. The recipes cover the foundations of SwiftUI as well as the new SwiftUI 2.0 features introduced in iOS 14. Other recipes will help you to make some of the new SwiftUI 2.0 components backward-compatible with iOS 13, such as the Map View or the Sign in with Apple View.
The cookbook begins by explaining how to use basic SwiftUI components. Then, you'll learn the core concepts of UI development such as Views, Controls, Lists, and ScrollViews using practical implementation in Swift. By learning drawings, built-in shapes, and adding animations and transitions, you'll discover how to add useful features to the SwiftUI. When you're ready, 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 while 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 found in building SwiftUI apps.What you will learn
Explore various layout presentations in SwiftUI such as HStack, VStack, LazyHStack, and LazyVGrid
Create a cross-platform app for iOS, macOS, and watchOS
Get up to speed with drawings in SwiftUI using built-in shapes, custom paths, and polygons
Discover modern animation and transition techniques in SwiftUI
Add user authentication using Firebase and Sign in with Apple
Handle data requests in your app using Core Data
Solve the most common SwiftUI problems, such as integrating a MapKit map, unit testing, snapshot testing, and previewing layouts
Who this book is forThis book is for mobile developers who want to learn SwiftUI as well as experienced iOS developers transitioning from UIKit to SwiftUI. The book assumes knowledge of the Swift programming language. Knowledge of object-oriented design and data structures is useful but not necessary.
Key Features
Apply the declarative programming paradigm for building cross-platform UIs for Apple devices
Learn to integrate UIKit, Core Data, Sign in with Apple, and Firebase with SwiftUI
Adopt the new SwiftUI 2.0 features to build visually appealing UIs at speed
Book DescriptionSwiftUI is an innovative and simple way to build beautiful user interfaces (UIs) for all Apple platforms, right from iOS and macOS through to watchOS and tvOS, using the Swift programming language. In this recipe-based book, you'll work with SwiftUI and explore a range of essential techniques and concepts that will help you through the development process. The recipes cover the foundations of SwiftUI as well as the new SwiftUI 2.0 features introduced in iOS 14. Other recipes will help you to make some of the new SwiftUI 2.0 components backward-compatible with iOS 13, such as the Map View or the Sign in with Apple View.
The cookbook begins by explaining how to use basic SwiftUI components. Then, you'll learn the core concepts of UI development such as Views, Controls, Lists, and ScrollViews using practical implementation in Swift. By learning drawings, built-in shapes, and adding animations and transitions, you'll discover how to add useful features to the SwiftUI. When you're ready, 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 while 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 found in building SwiftUI apps.What you will learn
Explore various layout presentations in SwiftUI such as HStack, VStack, LazyHStack, and LazyVGrid
Create a cross-platform app for iOS, macOS, and watchOS
Get up to speed with drawings in SwiftUI using built-in shapes, custom paths, and polygons
Discover modern animation and transition techniques in SwiftUI
Add user authentication using Firebase and Sign in with Apple
Handle data requests in your app using Core Data
Solve the most common SwiftUI problems, such as integrating a MapKit map, unit testing, snapshot testing, and previewing layouts
Who this book is forThis book is for mobile developers who want to learn SwiftUI as well as experienced iOS developers transitioning from UIKit to SwiftUI. The book assumes knowledge of the Swift programming language. Knowledge of object-oriented design and data structures is useful but not necessary.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1129 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83898-186-0 (9781838981860)
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Additional editions

Giordano Scalzo | Edgar Nzokwe
SwiftUI Cookbook
Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps
E-Book
09/2024
Packt Publishing
€25.49
Available for download
Persons
Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of ZX Spectrum. He has worked in Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, and in a ton of other languages that he has forgotten the names of. After years of backend development, over the past 10 years, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps-apps that he wrote for clients, enterprise applications, or on his own. He is currently a Tech Lead Consultant in London, where he leads mobile digital transformations through his company, Effective Code Ltd. Edgar Nzokwe is a software engineer with 6+ years of experience building web and mobile applications. His areas of expertise include SwiftUI, UIKit, and Kotlin, Python, and a few Javascript frameworks. Edgar is dedicated to advancing the knowledge base of SwiftUI because he believes it empowers developers to design and build dazzling cross-platform apps with minimal development time.
Content
Table of Contents
Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls
Going Beyond the Single Component with List and Scroll Views
Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview
Creating New Components and Grouping Views in Container Views
Presenting Extra Information to the User
Drawing with SwiftUI
Animating with SwiftUI
Driving SwiftUI with Data
Driving SwiftUI with Combine
Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI
Handling Core Data in SwiftUI
Cross-Platform SwiftUI
SwiftUI Tips and Tricks
Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls
Going Beyond the Single Component with List and Scroll Views
Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview
Creating New Components and Grouping Views in Container Views
Presenting Extra Information to the User
Drawing with SwiftUI
Animating with SwiftUI
Driving SwiftUI with Data
Driving SwiftUI with Combine
Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI
Handling Core Data in SwiftUI
Cross-Platform SwiftUI
SwiftUI Tips and Tricks