Over the past months, we now have labored laborious at updating our e-book Pondering in SwiftUI. Over the previous years, we had the prospect to conduct SwiftUI workshops for a lot of firms. Primarily based on this expertise and the suggestions we acquired, our method to explaining SwiftUI has developed quite a bit. Subsequently, we selected to do a full rewrite of the e-book to be on par with our workshops.
The overall construction nonetheless is similar to the earlier version, however the content material is model new. We put quite a lot of emphasis on explaining view timber (which actually would be the first chapter of the e-book) on this new version, in addition to how view timber are interpreted by way of state, structure, animations, and extra. The e-book consists of quite a bit of recent diagrams to visualise these ideas.
After WWDC, we had been a bit torn about what to do. Ought to we put out a e-book with out mentioning all the brand new issues? This is able to be bizarre for those who can goal iOS 17 / macOS 14. But rewriting the whole e-book for iOS 17 solely can also be not an choice, as many people nonetheless should help older platforms. As an alternative, we selected to amend the present chapters with callout bins, mentioning related modifications. As well as, we’ll have a separate iOS 17 chapter in the intervening time. For the ultimate launch of the e-book (as soon as the brand new stuff is out of beta) we’ll attempt to combine the contents of that chapter into the remainder of the e-book.
Because of this transition section, we have determined to launch the brand new version as a beta model. We plan to place out the chapters one-by-one as we’re integrating new iOS 17 matters. Throughout this prerelease section, we’re additionally internet hosting a weekly Q&A dwell stream. The first dwell stream shall be at this time (Friday June sixteenth) at 18:00 GMT+1 (9am PST). You may submit any questions you may have for us over at this Github repository.
Till now we now have up to date all of our books totally free ever since we began objc.io (over ten years in the past!). Since this replace of Pondering in SwiftUI shouldn’t be an incremental one, however a whole rewrite from the bottom up, we have determined to launch it as a brand new product – the prelease model is out there now.
