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SwiftUI Projects

You're reading from   SwiftUI Projects Build six real-world, cross-platform mobile applications using Swift, Xcode 12, and SwiftUI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214660
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Craig Clayton Craig Clayton
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: SwiftUI Basics 2. Chapter 2: SwiftUI Watch Tour FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: NBA Draft – Watch App 4. Chapter 4: Car Order Form – Design 5. Chapter 5: Car Order Form – Data 6. Chapter 6: Financial App – Design 7. Chapter 7: Financial App – Core Data 8. Chapter 8: Shoe Point of Sale System – Design 9. Chapter 9: Shoe Point of Sale System – CloudKit 10. Chapter 10: Sports News App – Design 11. Chapter 11: Sports News App – Data 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding State and Binding

State is a topic that I wanted to cover once you had some understanding of SwiftUI. Using State in SwiftUI simplifies our apps because we will now have one source of truth. When using State, persistent storage is created by SwiftUI for each of our views. Here is an example of a State property:

@State private var isDriverEnabled: Bool = false

In this book, you have seen something similar to this, but let's take the time to break it down thoroughly. By adding @State, we tell the system that the isDriverEnabled variable changes over time, and that views will depend on this value. Changes to @State-wrapped properties initiate a re-rendering of the view when the values are updated. Every change is dispersed to all of the views of the children.

If you have two views inside your main view, which also needs to react to a change, these views will not use the @State property. The topmost view always owns the State-wrapped properties. All of the...

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