Elevate SwiftUI skills by building projects : build four modern applications using Swift, Xcode 14, and SwiftUI for IPhone, IPad, Mac, and Apple watch / Frahaan Hussain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussain, Frahaan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile apps--Programming.

Mobile apps.

Swift (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, [2023]

Biography/History:

Hussain Frahaan: Frahaan Hussain is a 3 time published author with over 500, 000 students enrolled on his courses online and more than 40, 000 loyal YouTube followers. Before he started teaching programming online, Frahaan graduated top of his class with honours in Computer Games Programming from De Montfort University. After just 2 years, he was invited back to become module leader at his Alma Mater. While consulting with huge clients such as Google and Chukong, Frahaan continues to further the education of others and himself.

Summary:

Explore the power of SwiftUI, creating complex user interfaces for different Apple platforms as you design a tax calculator app, a photo gallery app, an app store, and a fitness companion app Key Features Learn how to use the latest SwiftUI features such as UIkit Develop UIs for all categories of Apple devices, from the Apple Watch to the iPad Enhance your applications further with advanced SwiftUI features Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects helps you harness the cutting-edge potential of SwiftUI and its innovative and user-friendly approach to crafting user interfaces for Apple platforms with the power of Swift. This book will enhance your UI programming skills with SwiftUI through a project-based methodology, guiding you to create four real-world projects. Starting with a quick recap of Swift and SwiftUI, you'll gradually develop projects tailored for iPhone, iPad, macOS, and watchOS using Swift and Xcode. You'll experience SwiftUI's versatility in action as you build a tax calculator for iPhone and a photo gallery for the iPad, which uses a larger display to enhance the viewing experience. You'll also create an app store for Mac and, finally, get to grips with the power of SwiftUI for smaller devices such as the Apple Watch by designing a Fitness Companion app. By the end of this book, you'll have built fully functional projects across multiple platforms and gained the expertise needed to excel as a professional SwiftUI developer. What you will learn Start with a quick recap of UI essentials in Swift and Swift basics Discover how UI elements are integrated into apps Understand how SwiftUI builds on top of the pre-existing Swift programming language Familiarize yourself with the latest Xcode version to create SwiftUI apps Develop a wide variety of applications that can be used as cornerstones Design and code for watchOS, iOS, macOS, and iPadOS in SwiftUI through explicit projects Who this book is for If you are a mobile developer already well-versed in Apple development using Swift, this book will further advance your skills in UI design. Basic Swift, Xcode, and Apple OS knowledge will help you get the most out of this book.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Foreword

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Swift and SwiftUI

Technical requirements and standards

Standards used

Why do we need coding standards?

What is Swift?

What is SwiftUI?

Views and Controls

Shapes

Layout Containers

Collection Containers

Presentation Containers

Understanding and implementing views

What are text views?

What are Image views?

What are shape views?

What are custom and combination views?

Understanding and implementing layouts

What are lazy stacks?

What are spacers?

What are ScrollView and ScrollViewReader?

What are grids?

What is PinnedScrollableView?

Device Previews

Summary

Chapter 2: iPhone Project - Tax Calculator Design

Technical requirements

Understanding the Design Specifications

Acceptance criteria

Building the calculator UI

Chapter 3: iPhone Project - Tax Calculator Functionality

Technical Requirements

Navigating from ContentView to ResultsView

Validating salary input

Using a variable to track if the salary is valid

isActive NavigationLink

Validating the salary

Passing the salary through to ResultsView

Calculating tax breakdown

Tax calculation

Fixing the ContentView binding error

Renaming ContentView to FrontView

Extra tasks

Different tax options

Tax geography

Chapter 4: iPad Project - Photo Gallery Overview

Wireframe

Building the Gallery UI

Set Project to iPad

Highlight Page

Adding Highlight Page Components

Implementing the Highlight View

Chapter 5: iPad Project - Photo Gallery Enhanced View

EnhancedView design overview.

The Text component

The Image component

Adding EnhancedView Components

Updating HighlightView

Implementing EnhancedView

Testing EnhancedView

Fullscreen mode

Collections

Chapter 6: Mac Project - App Store Bars

Understanding the Acceptance criteria

Wireframe design

Building the Sidebar UI

Exploring the Sidebar components

Label item

SearchBar

Implementing the Sidebar

NavigationView

Implementing Extra Features

SearchBar Enter Event

Clickable Label Event

Chapter 7: Mac Project - App Store Body

Main body overview

Image components

Text component

Implementing the main body

Coding the highlight banner

Coding the app groups

Extra Tasks

Search Functionality

App Page

Chapter 8: Watch Project - Fitness Companion Design

Acceptance criteria for our app

Wireframe for our app

Building the Fitness App

Activity Details

Implementing the Current Activity UI

Chapter 9: Watch Project - Fitness Companion UI

Activity button screen overview

Text components

Implementing the Activity Button Screen

Swipeable Pages

Activity Buttons

Different Exercises

Active timer

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781803237442

1803237449

OCLC:

1395183073