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Mastering SwiftUI for iOS 16 and Xcode 14 is Now Released

As you know, Apple released Xcode 14 and iOS 16, along with the debut of iPhone 14. Now our Mastering SwiftUI book is updated to support the latest version of iOS and Xcode. All the content including screenshots and source code are updated for Xcode 14 and iOS 16. On top of that, we added over 100 pages of...

Announcing Beginning iOS Programming with Swift for iOS 15 and Xcode 13

After months of hard work, the new edition of our Beginning iOS Programming with Swift course for iOS 15 and Xcode 13 is now officially launched. In addition to updating our course for iOS 15 and Xcode 13, this new update comes with two editions of the beginner book for UIKit and SwiftUI. Should you learn SwiftUI or...

Announcing Mastering SwiftUI Book for Xcode 12 and iOS 14

We are launching the update of our Mastering SwiftUI book for Xcode 12 and iOS 14. Along with the release of Xcode 12, Apple released a big update to the SwiftUI framework with a lot of additions. Other than adding new UI components to streamline your UI development, Xcode 12 introduces a new App lifecycle API for...

Building Collection Views in SwiftUI with LazyVGrid and LazyHGrid

The initial release of SwiftUI didn’t come with a native collection view. You can either build your own solution or use third party libraries. In this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced tons of new features for the SwiftUI framework. One of them is to address the need of implementing grid views. SwiftUI now...

Learn SwiftUI Using Swift Playgrounds for iPad and Mac

“I only have an iPad. Can I use it to develop iOS apps?” This is one of the most common questions for beginners. My answer is always “No, you need a Mac to run Xcode for iOS app development.” “But how about Swift Playgrounds for iPad? Can I use the app to learn Swift and app...

Announcing Mastering SwiftUI

We have just launched our new book – Mastering SwiftUI. As introduced to you earlier, this book teaches you how to build UIs and iOS apps with Apple’s brand new UI framework. It is written for both beginners and developers having some experience with Swift programming. We will dive deep into the framework,...

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Intermediate iOS Programming with Swift is Now Updated for iOS 15 and Xcode 13

This intermediate book (over 950 pages) uses a problem-solution approach to teach you Swift programming and covers some of the common APIs provided by the iOS SDK including Core ML and ARKit. The book and the source code bundled...

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Swift Playgrounds 4: Building a Text to Speech App Entirely on iPad

In WWDC 21, one of the announcements that caught my attention was the massive changes of Swift Playgrounds. Not only can you learn Swift using Playgrounds, the new update allows developers to create apps entirely on iPad and...

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Mastering SwiftUI is now updated for iOS 15 and Xcode 13

We’ve just released an update for our SwiftUI book – Mastering SwiftUI. All the content including screenshots and source code are updated for Xcode 13 and iOS 15. On top of that, we added new chapters to cover...

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SwiftUI: How to Display Web Page Using WKWebView

It is very common that you need to display web content in your apps. The iOS SDK provides three options for developers to show web content: Mobile Safari, WKWebView, and SFSafariViewController. In iOS 14 (or later), the SwiftUI...

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Announcing Beginning iOS Programming with Swift for iOS 15 and Xcode 13

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How to Create Animated Gradients in SwiftUI

I recently got a question from a reader about how to animate gradient or create an animated gradient background using SwiftUI. The SwiftUI framework provides a number of built-in components such as LinearGradient and...

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How To Style SwiftUI Buttons in iOS 15

In iOS 15, Apple introduced a new way to customize buttons in iOS apps for both SwiftUI and UIKit frameworks. While this tutorial focuses on the new features of SwiftUI, you can refer to this fantastic article, written by Sarun,...

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How to Share SwiftUI views Using Swift Packages

In the earlier tutorial, we created an animated menu bar in SwiftUI. What if you want to reuse the code in other projects? Of course, you can copy & paste the code from one project to another but there is a better way to...

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How to Create an Animated Navigation Menu in SwiftUI Using matchedGeometryEffect

One reason why I really enjoy programming using the SwiftUI framework is that it makes so easy to animate view changes. In particular, the introduction of the matchedGeometryEffect modifier, introduced in iOS 14, further...