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Juan C. Catalan
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Juan C. Catalan

Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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Implementing a CoreLocation wrapper as @ObservedObject

We mentioned in the introduction to this chapter that @State is used when the state variable has value-type semantics. This is because any mutation of the property creates a new copy of the variable. But what about a property with reference semantics?In this case, any mutation of the variable is applied to the variable itself and SwiftUI cannot detect the variation by itself. We must use a different property wrapper, @ObservedObject, and the observed object must conform to the ObservableObject protocol. Furthermore, the properties of this object that will be observed in the view must be decorated with @Published property wrapper. With this property wrapper, when the properties mutate, the view will be notified, and the body of the view will be rendered again.This will also help, if we want to bridge iOS foundation objects to the new SwiftUI model, such as CoreLocation functionalities. CoreLocation is the iOS framework that determines...

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Juan C. Catalan

Juan C. Catalan is a software engineer with more than 18 years of professional experience. He started mobile development back in the days of iOS 3. Juan has worked as a professional iOS developer in many industries, including medical devices, financial services, real estate, document management, fleet tracking and industrial automation. He has contributed to more than 30 published apps in the App Store, some of them with millions of users. Juan gives back to the iOS development community with technical talks, mentoring developers, reviewing technical books and now as a book author. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Donna, where they spend time with their kids.
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