English | 2023 | ISBN: ‎ 1803232668 | 478 pages | True/Retail PDF EPUB | 56.22 MB

Unleash the power of SwiftUI by building dynamic, cross-platform projects that will amaze their users

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features

Explore the basics of declarative programming and animation

Understand the fundamentals of SwiftUI and animatable properties

Learn while working on bner-to-advanced level animation projects

Book Description

Swift and SwiftUI are the backbone of Apple application development, making them a crucial skill set to learn. Animating SwiftUI Applications focuses on the creation of stunning animations, making you proficient in this declarative language and employing a minimal code approach.

In this book, you'll start by exploring the fundamentals of SwiftUI and animation, before jumping into various projects that will cement these skills in practice. You will explore some simple projects at first, and then the book will transition into more advanced animation projects, incliuding building two complete game apps. Finally, you will learn how to integrate the SpriteKit framework into your SwiftUI code to create stunning scenes with smoke, wind, fire, rain, and snow scenes, by leveg and combining particle ters into your SwiftUI animations.

By the end of this book, you'll have created a number of different animation projects, and will have gained a deep understanding of SwiftUI that can be used to develop your own unique creations.

What you will learn

Understand the fundamentals of SwiftUI and declarative programming

Master animation concepts like State variables and timing curves

Explore various animation properties like hueRotation, opacity, and scale

Create animations using SpriteKit and Particle ters

Use key coding techniques to manipulate and transform images, text, views, shapes, and more

Work with SwiftUI controls like Buttons, Sliders, Pickers, and more

Add audio to your animations for an interactive experience

Who This Book Is For

This book is for aspiring SwiftUI developers who have a basic understanding of Swift. It can also be used by SwiftUI developers, UIKit developers, and iOS developers that are new to SwiftUI and want to improve their animation proficiency.

Table of Contents

Exploring the Fundamentals of SwiftUI

Understanding Animation with SwiftUI

Creating a Breathing App

Building a Record Player

Animating Colorful Kaleidoscope Effects

Animating a Girl on a Swing

Building a Series of Belts and Gears

Animating a Bouquet of Flowers

Animating Strokes around Shapes

Creating an Ocean Scene

Animating an Elevator

Creating a Word Game (Part 1)

Creating a Word Game (Part 2)

Creating a Color Game

Integrating SpriteKit into Your SwiftUI Projects