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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838981860

Length 614 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

SwiftUI

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Edgar Nzokwe

Giordano Scalzo

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Using previews in UIKit

Xcode previews provide a fast and easy way to quickly preview the current state of your view. Previews were introduced in Xcode 11 together with SwiftUI. You might think previews can only be used on SwiftUI apps, but you'll be wrong. UIKit apps can also make use of this great new feature!

In this recipe, we will set up a UIKit view to make it "previewable" in the Xcode canvas.

Getting ready

If you have not yet done so, download the GitHub repository for this book from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/SwiftUI-Cookbook.

How to do it…

We will change the build settings of UIKit to add iOS 13+ capabilities to the debug build, and then set up the UIKit page to preview our code during design and debugging. The steps are as follows:

Open the initial iOS 12 XCode project located at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/SwiftUI-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter03%20-%20Viewing%20while%20building%20with%20SwiftUI%20Preview/05%20...

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Authors (2)

Giordano Scalzo

Giordano Scalzo

Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of ZX Spectrum. He has worked in Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, and in a ton of other languages that he has forgotten the names of. After years of backend development, over the past 10 years, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps—apps that he wrote for clients, enterprise applications, or on his own. He is currently a Tech Lead Consultant in London, where he leads mobile digital transformations through his company, Effective Code Ltd.

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Nzokwe

Nzokwe

Edgar Nzokwe is a software engineer with 6+ years of experience building web and mobile applications. His areas of expertise include SwiftUI, UIKit, and Kotlin, Python, and a few Javascript frameworks. Edgar is dedicated to advancing the knowledge base of SwiftUI because he believes it empowers developers to design and build dazzling cross-platform apps with minimal development time.

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