Creating forms with SwiftUI

A basic rundown of SwiftUI and some thoughts on where it stands at the moment

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1. Xmartlabs Creating forms with SwiftUI November 28, 2019
2. Xmartlabs About us Mathias Claassen iOS Developer Rodrigo Arsuaga iOS Developer
3. Basic View
4. Lists
5. Xmartlabs 2019 Handling state • State: Private properties of primitive types (Int, String, etc). • ObservedObject: Complex (reference) types, like a class, of which we want to observe its variables. Might be shared with other views. • EnvironmentObject: shared data that is made available application-wide. Variables of these types will automatically refresh the view when changed.
6. Extended list
7. Using Form
8. With a VStack...
9. Xmartlabs 2019 UIKit <-> SwiftUI UIKit views and view controllers can be used in Swift UI • By conforming to UIViewControllerRepresentable or UIViewRepresentable SwiftUI views can be used in UIKit • By wrapping them in UIHostingController
10. Demo
12. Xmartlabs 2019 A few limitations • No way to change content offset in a Form • No way to set a TextField to be first responder • SecureField does not have `onEditingChanged`
13. Xmartlabs 2019 For building simple forms, SwiftUI works well. You can make these forms very quickly and with nice code. Also, it has great potential to compartmentalize. If you need to dig deeper, then it becomes complicated as there are many basic features not supported out of the box and some of them are hard to workaround. Conclusion
14. Contact: Thank you for your time See you next time! hi@xmartlabs.com