UI Design for iOS App Development: Using SwiftUI

✍ Scribed by Bear Cahill

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Design is a challenge for most developers. Without a background or training in user interface skills, it’s hard to navigate what choices make the best sense for the end user. This book shows you how to migrate from Storyboards to SwiftUI to design dynamic and engaging UIs for iOS apps.

SwiftUI is new in iOS 13 but you may want to support past versions as well. To satisfy this, you'll start by reviewing nib/xib files and Storyboards and then move into SwiftUI and explore how to design apps in both UI toolkits. Gaining a firm base in technologies old and new will allow you to future proof your UI during this period of transition.

Developers generally want to stay in code, but UI development tends to be a visual effort. This book takes a very structured and code-like approach to UI design to take the fear away. You’ll grasp Storyboards and Auto-Layout/Constraints, while also learning to move past them with the easier options in SwiftUI. A clear understanding of both technologies is key to keeping your most functional coding and also making things look right.

With UI Design for iOS App Development, you’ll learn SwiftUI easily and get back into your code quickly.

What You'll Learn

• Build iOS app UIs both in current and new paradigms
  
• Work with Storyboards and Auto-Layout/Constraints
  
• Design UIs in a coder friendly way
  

Who This Book Is For

iOS developers building a strong foundation in UI design to fill in the gaps from their training. For veteran developers, it’s vital to be able to match your coding skills with equal UI/UX abilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introducing SwiftUI (Bear Cahill)....Pages 1-5
Take It Easy (Bear Cahill)....Pages 7-25
SwiftUI Building Blocks (Bear Cahill)....Pages 27-48
Binding Source of Truth (Bear Cahill)....Pages 49-62
ObservableObjects (Bear Cahill)....Pages 63-74
Environment Values (Bear Cahill)....Pages 75-95
List of Items (Bear Cahill)....Pages 97-109
SwiftUI Canvas Preview (Bear Cahill)....Pages 111-125
Design for Previews (Bear Cahill)....Pages 127-146
SwiftUI Navigation (Bear Cahill)....Pages 147-157
UIKit in SwiftUI (Bear Cahill)....Pages 159-168
Data from UIKit with Coordinator (Bear Cahill)....Pages 169-179
Target/Action in SwiftUI (Bear Cahill)....Pages 181-194
SwiftUI in UIKit (Bear Cahill)....Pages 195-211
Introduction to Combine (Bear Cahill)....Pages 213-224
URLSession Publisher (Bear Cahill)....Pages 225-243
Transitions and Animation (Bear Cahill)....Pages 245-267
App Including WatchKit (Bear Cahill)....Pages 269-276
User Input Form (Bear Cahill)....Pages 277-289
Presenting Popups (Bear Cahill)....Pages 291-305
Back Matter ....Pages 307-322

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Apple and iOS