SwiftUI Cookbook: A guide to solving the most common problems and learning best practices while building SwiftUI apps

by Giordano Scalzo, Edgar Nzokwe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803240435
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	616
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls
2. Going Beyond the Single Component with Lists and Scroll Views
3. Exploring Advanced Components
4. Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview
5. Creating New Components and Grouping Views with Container Views
6. Presenting Extra Information to the User
7. Drawing with SwiftUI
8. Animating with SwiftUI
9. Driving SwiftUI with Data
10. Driving SwiftUI with Combine
11. SwiftUI Concurrency with async await
12. Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI
13. Handling Core Data in SwiftUI
14. Creating Cross-Platform apps with SwiftUI
15. SwiftUI Tips and Tricks