16. An Overview of SwiftUI
Now that Xcode has been installed and the basics of the Swift programing language covered, it is time to start introducing SwiftUI.
First announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in 2019, SwiftUI is an entirely new approach to developing apps for all Apple operating system platforms. The basic goals of SwiftUI are to make app development easier, faster and less prone to the types of bugs that typically appear when developing software projects. These elements have been combined with SwiftUI specific additions to Xcode that allow SwiftUI projects to be tested in near real-time using a live preview of the app during the development process.
Many of the advantages of SwiftUI originate from the fact that it is both declarative and data driven, topics which will be explained in this chapter.
The discussion in this chapter is intended as a high-level overview of SwiftUI and does not cover the practical aspects of implementation within...