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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981860
Length 614 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edgar Nzokwe Edgar Nzokwe
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Giordano Scalzo Giordano Scalzo
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls 2. Chapter 2: Going Beyond the Single Component with Lists and Scroll Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview 4. Chapter 4: Creating New Components and Grouping Views in Container Views 5. Chapter 5: Presenting Extra Information to the User 6. Chapter 6: Drawing with SwiftUI 7. Chapter 7: Animating with SwiftUI 8. Chapter 8: Driving SwiftUI with Data 9. Chapter 9: Driving SwiftUI with Combine 10. Chapter 10: Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 11. Chapter 11: Handling Core Data in SwiftUI 12. Chapter 12: Cross-Platform SwiftUI 13. Chapter 13: SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Cross-Platform SwiftUI

SwiftUI makes it easy to take some or all of the code written for one Apple platform, and use it to create an app for another platform in the Apple ecosystem. For example, in this chapter, we start by creating an iOS app and then reusing some of the components to create a macOS and a watchOS app.

When using Cross-Platform development in SwiftUI, we share common resources between each platform, while creating other resources that are platform-specific. For example, models may be shared across platforms, but certain images and SwiftUI views would be made platform-specific. Creating platform-specific views allows us to follow platform-specific best-practice design guidelines and improve the user experience provided by our apps.

This chapter covers some of the Cross-Platform functionalities of SwiftUI with the following recipes:

  • Creating an iOS app in SwiftUI
  • Creating the macOS version of the iOS app
  • Creating the watchOS version...
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