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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Tools for visionOS development

To install the visionOS development system, you only need to download the optional visionOS simulator when installing Xcode. Otherwise, you can go to Xcode | Settings and select the Platforms tab. The following screenshot shows the Platforms tab in the Xcode preferences:

Figure 16.1 – Verifying that the visionOS platform is installed

If visionOS has not been downloaded already, it will show a GET button next to its size. The visionOS simulator download is around 7 GB in size, in addition to Xcode itself. A visionOS application can contain one or more windows, spaces, and volumes. Let’s understand these further:

visionOS windows are SwiftUI scenes that can contain traditional 2D views and controls. They appear as floating 2D windows.
visionOS volumes can add 3D depth and are SwiftUI scenes that include 3D content made with RealityKit or Unity, creating user experiences that can be viewed from any...