Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine: Functional Programming to Build UIs on Apple Platforms

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P. FrieseAsynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8572-5_2

2. Getting Started with SwiftUI

Peter Friese¹  

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Hamburg, Germany

 

In the previous chapter, you’ve learned about the basic principles of SwiftUI and some of the reasons why Apple implemented a new UI framework when they already had a number of UI toolkits that work perfectly fine. We also took a whirlwind tour of SwiftUI and the tooling Xcode provides for building SwiftUI apps.

In this chapter, we’re going to dive deeper into using SwiftUI. The best way to learn is by doing, so we will be building a simple app that might turn out to be useful for you.

We will ...