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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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Summary

In this chapter, we have examined stack-based navigation in SwiftUI, illustrating the old approaches based on NavigationView, which are still useful on iOS versions prior to 16, and the new StackView and .navigationDestination approaches, which allow for a completely flexible approach to iOS navigation, to the point of rendering many of the navigation tricks and patterns used in UIKit totally unnecessary and obsolete.

We have also shown how to use NavigationSplitView on large screens to achieve the functionality of the old UISplitView, and we have shown that this can be used to automatically adapt the rendering of the navigation appropriately and automatically depending on the screen size of the device.

We have finally concluded by showing how the navigation stack can be manipulated programmatically in an arbitrary fashion using NavigationPath, and showing one of the simplest possible strategies for saving and restoring it programmatically using the JSON format.

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