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Mastering iOS 18 Development

You're reading from   Mastering iOS 18 Development Take your iOS development experience to the next level with iOS, Xcode, Swift, and SwiftUI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468104
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with iOS 18 Development
2. Chapter 1: What’s New in iOS 18 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Simplifying Our Entities with SwiftData 4. Chapter 3: Understanding SwiftUI Observation 5. Chapter 4: Advanced Navigation with SwiftUI 6. Chapter 5: Enhancing iOS Applications with WidgetKit 7. Chapter 6: SwiftUI Animations and SF Symbols 8. Chapter 7: Improving Feature Exploration with TipKit 9. Chapter 8: Connecting and Fetching Data from the Network 10. Chapter 9: Creating Dynamic Graphs with Swift Charts 11. Part 2: Refine your iOS Development with Advanced Techniques
12. Chapter 10: Swift Macros 13. Chapter 11: Creating Pipelines with Combine 14. Chapter 12: Being Smart with Apple Intelligence and ML 15. Chapter 13: Exposing Your App to Siri with App Intents 16. Chapter 14: Improving the App Quality with Swift Testing 17. Chapter 15: Exploring Architectures for iOS 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the importance of architecture

To understand the importance of architecture, let’s try to understand how the iOS development knowledge is built.

Many think that iOS development is centralized around Swift – if we know Swift, we know iOS development.

Nonetheless, iOS development contains many knowledge levels, and the Swift language is only one of them.

Let’s try to structure the iOS development to different levels:

  • IDE: Familiarity with Xcode, its debugging tools, configuration, simulator, builder, and code signing is crucial.
  • Language: Whether it’s Swift, Objective C, or C++, language is a fundamental part of iOS development. It’s the basis for daily implementing our app’s logic and design pattern.
  • System: Understanding iOS’s unique characteristics, strengths, and limitations is key. Ultimately, we are developing in a particular environment with its own rules and policies.
  • SDK: The SDK provides...
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