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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift Develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625241
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Patel Ankur Patel
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift 2. Creating the Native App FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Vapor 4. Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases 5. Building a REST API using Vapor 6. Consuming API in App 7. Creating Web Views and Middleware 8. Testing and CI 9. Deploying the App 10. Adding Authentication 11. Building a tvOS App 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sharing code between iOS and tvOS


To share code between our iOS and tvOS app, we will need to let Xcode know the Swift files that need to be shared across different targets. This is easy to do by simply checking the targets a Swift file should be part of when compiling and building the product:

Select one of the Swift files inside the ShoppingList app folder, and you should see ShoppingList and ShoppingListTV under Target Membership inside File Inspector on the right side of the screen. Check the ShoppingListTV target. Now, go through the remaining Swift files inside the ShoppingList iOS app, except for AppDelegate.swift, and check the ShoppingListTV target, as we will share all of this code with the tvOS app. Once you are done, try building the app. You should encounter a bunch of errors, as our code will not work with tvOS just out-of-the-box. We will need to tweak some lines of code, as some APIs available in iOS are not available in tvOS. One such example is the usage of prefersLargeTitles...

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