SwiftUI Cookbook : A Guide for Building Beautiful and Interactive SwiftUI Apps / Juan C. Catalan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Catalan, Juan C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Swift (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (799 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd., [2023]

Summary:

SwiftUI is the modern way to build user interfaces for iOS, macOS, and watchOS. It provides a declarative and intuitive way to create beautiful and interactive user interfaces. The new edition of this comprehensive cookbook includes a fully updated repository for SwiftUI 5, iOS 17, Xcode 15, and Swift 5.9. With this arsenal, it teaches you everything you need to know to build beautiful and interactive user interfaces with SwiftUI 5, from the basics to advanced topics like custom modifiers, animations, and state management. In this new edition, you will dive into the world of creating powerful data visualizations with a new chapter on Swift Charts and how to seamlessly integrate charts into your SwiftUI apps. Further, you will be able to unleash your creativity with advanced controls, including multi-column tables and two-dimensional layouts. You can explore new modifiers for text, images, and shapes that give you more control over the appearance of your views. You will learn how to develop apps for multiple platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more. With expert insights, real-world examples, and a recipe-based approach, you’ll be equipped to build remarkable SwiftUI apps that stand out in today’s competitive market.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Using the Basic SwiftUI Viewsand Controls

Technical requirements

What's new in SwiftUI

Laying out components

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Dealing with text

See also

Using images

Adding buttons and navigating with them

Beyond buttons: using advanced pickers

Applying groups of styles using ViewModifier

Separating presentation from content with ViewBuilder

Simple graphics using SF Symbols

Integrating UIKit into SwiftUI: the best of both worlds

Adding SwiftUI to a legacy UIKit app

Exploring more views and controls

Chapter 2: Displaying Scrollable Content with Lists and Scroll Views

Using scroll views

Creating a list of static items

Using custom rows in a list

Adding rows to a list

Deleting rows from a list

Creating an editable List view

How it works….

There's more…

Moving the rows in a List view

Adding sections to a list

Creating editable collections

Using searchable lists

Using searchable lists with scopes

Chapter 3: Exploring Advanced Components

Using LazyHStack and LazyVStack

Displaying tabular content with LazyHGrid and LazyVGrid

Scrolling programmatically

Displaying hierarchical content in expanding lists

Using disclosure groups to hide and show content

Creating SwiftUI widgets

Chapter 4: Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview in Xcode 15

Using the live preview canvas in Xcode15

Previewing a view in a NavigationStack

Previewing a view with different traits

Previewing a view on different devices

Using previews in UIKit

Using mock data for previews

There's more...

Chapter 5: Creating New Components and Grouping Views with Container Views.

Technical requirements

Showing and hiding sections in forms

Disabling and enabling items in forms

Filling out forms easily using Focus and Submit

Creating multi-column lists with Table

Using Grid, a powerful two-dimensional layout

Learn more on Discord

Chapter 6: Presenting Views Modally

Presenting alerts

iOS 15 and later

iOS 13 and 14

Adding actions to alert buttons

Presenting confirmation dialogs

Presenting new views using sheets and full-screen covers

Displaying popovers

Creating context menus

Chapter 7: Navigation Containers

Simple navigation with NavigationStack

Typed data-driven navigation with NavigationStack

Untyped data-driven navigation with NavigationStack

Multi-column navigation with NavigationSplitView

Navigating between multiple views with TabView

Getting ready.

How to do it…

Programmatically switching tabs on a TabView

Chapter 8: Drawing with SwiftUI

Using SwiftUI's built-in shapes

Drawing a custom shape

Drawing a curved custom shape

Drawing using the Canvas API

Implementing a progress ring

Implementing a Tic-Tac-Toe game in SwiftUI

Rendering a gradient view in SwiftUI

Chapter 9: Animating with SwiftUI

Creating basic animations

Transforming shapes

Creating a banner with a spring animation

Applying a delay to an animation view modifier to create a sequence of animations

Applying a delay to a withAnimation function to create a sequence of animations

Applying multiple animations to a view

Chained animations with PhaseAnimator

Custom animations with KeyframeAnimator

Creating custom view transitions

Creating a hero view transition with .matchedGeometryEffect

Implementing a stretchable header in SwiftUI

Implementing a swipeable stack of cards in SwiftUI

Chapter 10: Driving SwiftUI with Data

Using @State to drive a view's behavior

Using @Binding to pass a state variable to child views

Implementing a CoreLocation wrapper as@ObservedObject

Using @StateObject to preserve the model's life cycle

How it works...

Sharing state objects with multiple Views using@EnvironmentObject

Using Observation to manage model data

Chapter 11: Driving SwiftUI with Combine

Introducing Combine in a SwiftUI project

Publishers in Combine

Subscriptions in Combine

Managing the memory in Combine to build a timer app

Validating a form using Combine

Fetching remote data using Combine and visualizing it in SwiftUI

Debugging an app based on Combine

Unit testing an app based on Combine

Chapter 12: SwiftUI Concurrency with async await.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781805129844

1805129848

OCLC:

1416369443