SwiftUI training course

Overview of SwiftUI and Xcode

• Overview of SwiftUI features
• SwiftUI file types use in an App Project
• Walk through of all the main features of the Xcode IDE
• Preview mode and the Simulator
• Useful Shortcuts
• Project templates for Multiplatform, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, watchOS & tvOS
• Anatomy of an application
  • Understand sandboxing
  • What makes up an iOS app
  • Understand SwiftUI App Hierarchy
  • Understand the role of scenes and views
  • Info.plist
  • Understand the coordinate system used for placing views
  • Understanding about app icons and launch images
• Overview of Preview Area
• Overview of Libraries

Lab 1 - Build a simple “Hello World App” in SwiftUI using Xcode

Why use SwiftUI compared to UIKit? (Pros and Cons)

• Overview of UIKit compared to SwiftUI
• Pros and cons of UIKit
• Pros and cons of SwiftUI

SwiftUI Application Lifecycle

• Understand Scene Phase
  • active
  • inactive
  • background
• Understand the Application Lifecycle
  • Not running
  • Inactive
  • Active
  • Suspended

Lab 2 - Build an App that displays the Scene Phase and Application Lifecycle

Arranging Views on the UI

• Understand what a Stacks are available in SwiftUI
  • VStack
  • HStack
  • ZStack
  • Stack alignments
• Understand Padding Modifiers
  • top
  • bottom
  • leading
  • trailing
  • horizontal
  • vertical
• Understand the different properties
• Understand Spacers

Lab 3 - Build an App using Stacks and Padding

Basic Interaction

• Understand user interaction in SwiftUI
• Buttons
• Text
• @State

Lab 4 - Build Appwith  user interactive buttons

Lab 5 - Build a Quiz App

Understand basic interaction User Interface controls

• Text
• TextField
• Slider
• Toggle
• Segment Picker
• Stepper
• ContextMenu
• Alerts
• ActionSheets

Lab 6 - Build an app using all the controls

Subviews

• Understanding sub-views in SwiftUI
• Calling a sub-view from a main view
• Using images in an app

Lab 7 - Build an app with a sub-view

Sharing Data Between Structures

• Using Structures in SwiftUI to build other views
• Sharing data with Bindings
• StateObject and ObservedObject
• EnvironmentalObject

Lab 9 - Build an app with Bindings to pass data

Lab 10 - Build an app with StateObject and ObservedObject to pass data

Lab 11 - Build an app using EnvironmentalObject to pass data

GeometryReader

• Overview of GeometryReader
• Max
• Min

Lab 12 - Build an app with using GeometryReader

Lab 13 - Build an app using GeometryReader Max and Min

Understand ViewBuilders

• ResultBuilders
• Overview of SwiftUI ViewBuilders
• Creating Childview using a ViewBuilder

Lab 14 - Build an app using ViewBuilders

Tab Views

• Understand Tab Views
• Using simple Tab Views
• Embedding Views in Tab Views

Lab 15 - Build an app using Tab Views

Pickers

• Understanding Pickers
• Single Pickers
• Double Pickers
• Dependant Pickers

Lab 16 - Build an app using various type of Picker

Introduction to Lists

• Basic Lists
• OutlineGroups
• DisclosureGroups
• Load Data/images to lists dynamically

Lab 17 - Build an app using Lists to display data sets

Modal and Navigation Views

• Understand presenting Modal Views
• Using Navigation Controllers

Lab 18 - Build an app using Modal Views for navigation

Lab 19 - Build an app using Navigation Views for navigation

Saving data

• The Codable Protocol
• Using an Encoder
• Using a Decoder
• Saving data to a Plist file
• Reading Data from a Plist file
• Saving Data in a json format
• Reading Data in a json format

Lab 20 - Build an app that saves data to a Plist file

Lab 21 - Build an app that saves data to a json file

SwiftUI/UIKit interoperability

• Overview of SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability
• Intergrating UIViews into SwiftUI
  • MakeUIView()
  • updateView()
  • dismantleUIView()
• Using a coordinator
• Handeling UIKit Deligation and Data Sources
• Intergrating UIViewControllers into SwiftUI

Lab 22 - Build an app that integrates a UIView into SwiftUI

Lab 23 - Build an app that integrates a UIViewController into SwiftUI

SwiftUI best practices, workarounds and limitations

• Best practices to use when building a SwiftUI app
• Workarounds when problems occur
• Limitations of SwiftUI
• Considerations about when to use SwiftUI or UIKit

*** Additional topics that could be covered on a 4 day course

• Using Combine with SwiftUI
• Advanced List
• Spilt Views
• WebViews
• Maps