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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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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

Integrating Core Data with SwiftUI

Over the years, you may have found different ways of using Core Data in your apps from an architectural point of view. For example, Apple, pre-iOS14, provided Xcode templates that created the Core Data containers in AppDelegate. Other developers prefer to wrap Core Data inside manager classes, abstracting Core Data entirely, while encapsulating the whole Core Data Stack and managed objects in a module, so that it's easy to move to another solution, such as Realm, if needed.

SwiftUI's integration, however, points firmly in one direction: create the container when the app starts, inject it into Environment, and then use it to fetch data or make changes.

When building a new app with Xcode, you can check the Use Core Data checkbox so that Xcode creates a template that injects the Core Data stack in the most efficient way possible.

Although the template provided by Xcode is quite complete and powerful, it is unnecessarily complicated...

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