SwiftUI for Absolute Beginners: Program Controls and Views for iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps

by Jayant Varma

Dive into the world of developing for all of Apple platforms with SwiftUI, Apple’s new framework that makes writing applications faster and easier with fewer lines of code. This book teaches the basics of SwiftUI to help you write amazing native applications using XCode.For developers already familiar with ReactNative, this book reviews the declarative, state-based DSL that manages the UI and updates it automatically will feel just like what they’re used to. You'll see how SwiftUI reduces the number of lines of code required to achieve the same effects by over 60% and provides a much better experience. Like the announcement of Swift in 2014, SwiftUI is expected to fundamentally change the way developing programmers approach coding iPhone and iPad applications. This book examines how SwiftUI lowers the entry barrier for developers to write amazing cross-platform applications for iOS and iPadOS as well as WatchOS, Mac OS, and TVOS. What You'll LearnWrite code in the new SwiftUI syntaxCombine views to arrange them for an applicationAdd gestures and controls to an applicationWho This Book Is ForAnyone who wants to learn to develop apps for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch using the Swift programming language. No previous programming experience is necessary.

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2019

Reviews

[Quang L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked some of what I saw, but overall I was a disappointed by how short it is. It works as a quick overview, outlining a lot of the possibilities and providing some of the historical context, but it doesn't go into enough detail to serve as a either a tutorial book or a reference.