You're reading from An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI Design and build beautiful apps quickly and easily with minimum code

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813624

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Michele Fadda

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Simple Views FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Environment – Xcode, Playgrounds, and SwiftUI

3. Chapter 2: Adding Basic UI Elements and Designing Layouts

4. Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity to a SwiftUI View

5. Part 2: Scrollable Views

6. Chapter 4: Iterating Views, Scroll Views, FocusState, Lists, and Scroll View Reader

7. Chapter 5: The Art of Displaying Grids

8. Part 3: SwiftUI Navigation

9. Chapter 6: Tab Bars and Modal View Presentation

10. Chapter 7: All About Navigation

11. Part 4: Graphics and Animation

12. Chapter 8: Creating Custom Graphics

13. Chapter 9: An Introduction to Animations in SwiftUI

14. Part 5: App Architecture

15. Chapter 10: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part I: Practical Tools

16. Chapter 11: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part II – the Theory

17. Part 6: Beyond Basics

18. Chapter 12: Persistence with Core Data

19. Chapter 13: Modern Structured Concurrency

20. Chapter 14: An Introduction to SwiftData

21. Chapter 15: Consuming REST Services in SwiftUI

22. Chapter 16: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro

23. Index

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Exploring SwiftUI with Xcode

In this section, we are going to look into the Xcode UI in the context of a SwiftUI project.

Xcode is quite a large topic by itself. We will focus on SwiftUI and explain enough about how Xcode usage differs in SwiftUI from UIKit to get you started, how to create a SwiftUI project, and add targets for various Apple platforms. Also, we will explain how to add tests to a project.

A brief tour of Xcode

Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing any code on any device that Apple produces. Xcode is therefore a massive and complex app capable of supporting many different types of projects and technologies. Not all of these types of projects are relevant to SwiftUI, so we will limit ourselves to Swift as a language and SwiftUI as a UI framework. In the past, the only supported language for app development was Objective-C and the only supported UI framework was different for each device platform, notably UIKit for iOS and AppKit...