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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook A guide to solving the most common problems and learning best practices while building SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234458
Length 616 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Giordano Scalzo Giordano Scalzo
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Edgar Nzokwe Edgar Nzokwe
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Table of Contents (17) 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: Exploring Advanced Components 4. Chapter 4: Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview 5. Chapter 5: Creating New Components and Grouping Views with Container Views 6. Chapter 6: Presenting Extra Information to the User 7. Chapter 7: Drawing with SwiftUI 8. Chapter 8: Animating with SwiftUI 9. Chapter 9: Driving SwiftUI with Data 10. Chapter 10: Driving SwiftUI with Combine 11. Chapter 11: SwiftUI Concurrency with async await 12. Chapter 12: Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 13. Chapter 13: Handling Core Data in SwiftUI 14. Chapter 14: Creating Cross-Platform Apps with SwiftUI 15. Chapter 15: SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI

Since the creation of the mobile apps market, one of the most important features that most apps utilize is authentication. The normal way in which app creators ensure that authentication is provided is by ensuring that the user creates a new profile in the app they are using. However, this creates some problems regarding the user-friendliness of the app. This is because before the user can use the app, they must do something that could be considered time-consuming, which means they might leave the app without using it.

There are also security concerns here. Because creating a new profile for each app we use is a repetitive process, and we could be tempted to reuse a password that we've already used somewhere else. For example, if a data breach occurs on any of the apps we've used, and we've used the password for that app elsewhere, our other accounts that use that password are vulnerable to being hacked...

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