You're reading from An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI

Product type Book

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813624

Pages 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Michele Fadda

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Simple Views

2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Environment – Xcode, Playgrounds, and SwiftUI

3. Chapter 2: Adding Basic UI Elements and Designing Layouts

4. Chapter 3: Adding Interactivity to a SwiftUI View

5. Part 2: Scrollable Views

6. Chapter 4: Iterating Views, Scroll Views, FocusState, Lists, and Scroll View Reader

7. Chapter 5: The Art of Displaying Grids

8. Part 3: SwiftUI Navigation

9. Chapter 6: Tab Bars and Modal View Presentation

10. Chapter 7: All About Navigation

11. Part 4: Graphics and Animation

12. Chapter 8: Creating Custom Graphics

13. Chapter 9: An Introduction to Animations in SwiftUI

14. Part 5: App Architecture

15. Chapter 10: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part I: Practical Tools

16. Chapter 11: App Architecture and SwiftUI Part II – the Theory

17. Part 6: Beyond Basics

18. Chapter 12: Persistence with Core Data

19. Chapter 13: Modern Structured Concurrency

20. Chapter 14: An Introduction to SwiftData

21. Chapter 15: Consuming REST Services in SwiftUI

22. Chapter 16: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro

23. Index

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