Hacking with macOS: SwiftUI Edition
Preface
Project 1: Storm Viewer
Get started coding in Swift by making an image viewer app and learning key concepts.
- Storm Viewer: Setting up
- Working with views
- Introduction to lists
- Loading our images
- Responding to image selection
- Finishing touches
- Storm Viewer: Wrap up
Project 2: Cows and Bulls
Practice your List skills while learning about random numbers and text input.
- Cows and Bulls: Setting up
- Designing our user interface
- Filling in the list
- Marking guesses
- Extra polish
- Customizing the game
- Now take a bow!
- Cows and Bulls: Wrap up
Project 3: Views and Modifiers
Dive deep into Swift's rendering system.
- Views and modifiers: Introduction
- Why does SwiftUI use structs for views?
- Why modifier order matters
- Why does SwiftUI use “some View” for its view type?
- Conditional modifiers
- Environment modifiers
- Views as properties
- View composition
- Custom modifiers
- Custom containers
- Views and modifiers: Wrap up
Project 4: Text Parser
Tackle the command line with Swift Package Manager and the NaturalLanguage framework.
- Text Parser: Introduction
- Bootstrapping an app
- Performing semantic analysis
- Finding alternative words
- Detecting names and languages
- Bringing in an external package
- Flags and options
- Text Parser: Wrap up
Project 5: MultiMap
Learn to create maps and map pins by combining SwiftUI and MapKit.
- MultiMap: Introduction
- Creating an interactive map
- Searching for locations
- Handling multiple list selection
- Switching over to searchable()
- Final polish
- MultiMap: Wrap up
Project 6: Animation
Spruce up your UI with springs, bounces, and more.
- Animation: Introduction
- Creating implicit animations
- Customizing animations in SwiftUI
- Animating bindings
- Creating explicit animations
- Controlling the animation stack
- Animating gestures
- Showing and hiding views with transitions
- Building custom transitions using ViewModifier
- Animation: Wrap up
Project 7: Fast Track
Learn to fetch and parse JSON from the internet, displaying the results in a grid.
- Fast Track: Setting up
- From lists to grids
- Downloading data from a server
- Remote images and custom subviews
- Playing audio
- Adding some extra polish
- Fast Track: Wrap up
Project 8: Odd One Out
Build a picture-matching game that's all but guaranteed to get you stumped.
- Odd One Out: Setting up
- Creating a grid of buttons
- Generating layouts
- Click to win
- Game over
- Odd One Out: Wrap up
Project 9: Drawing
Use shapes, paths, colors, and more to create custom art for your app.
- Drawing: Introduction
- Creating custom paths with SwiftUI
- Paths vs shapes in SwiftUI
- Adding strokeBorder() support with InsettableShape
- Transforming shapes using CGAffineTransform and even-odd fills
- Creative borders and fills using ImagePaint
- Enabling high-performance Metal rendering with drawingGroup()
- Special effects in SwiftUI: blurs, blending, and more
- Animating simple shapes with animatableData
- Animating complex shapes with AnimatablePair
- Creating a spirograph with SwiftUI
- Drawing: Wrap up
Project 10: Time Buddy
Expand your skills to the macOS menu bar and build a helpful utility for distributed teams.
- Time Buddy: Setting up
- The art of nothing
- Building the main UI
- Moving, deleting, and copying
- Clean ups
- Time Buddy: Wrap up
Project 11: Bubble Trouble
Create a physics-based bubble popping game with timers, sound effects, and more.
- Bubble Trouble: Setting up
- Cleaning up the Xcode template
- Bubbles… bubbles everywhere!
- Setting the universe in motion
- Adding some difficulty
- Gotta pop ‘em all
- Bubble Trouble: Wrap up
Project 12: Layout and Geometry
Explore the inner workings of SwiftUI's layout system.
- Layout and geometry: Introduction
- How layout works in SwiftUI
- Alignment and alignment guides
- How to create a custom alignment guide
- Absolute positioning for SwiftUI views
- Understanding frames and coordinates inside GeometryReader
- ScrollView effects using GeometryReader
- Layout and geometry: Wrap up
Project 13: Screenable
Get to grips with document-based apps by building a screenshot editor.
- Screenable: Setting up
- Introduction to FileDocument
- Custom rendering with Canvas
- Loading files from your app bundle
- Adding images with drag and drop
- Colors and gradients
- Adding shadows
- Exporting the finished product
- Screenable: Wrap up
Project 14: Shooting Gallery
Build a fast-paced shooting game with animations, new levels, and a custom mouse cursor.
- Shooting Gallery: Setting up
- Creating the game world
- Creating a custom node
- Click, click, bang!
- Adding some polish
- Shooting Gallery: Wrap up
Project 15: Accessibility
Learn how to make your apps available to everyone.
- Accessibility: Introduction
- Identifying views with useful labels
- Hiding and grouping accessibility data
- Reading the value of controls
- Accessibility: Wrap up
Project 16: Bookworm
Upgrade your app storage to use SwiftData.
- Bookworm: Setting up
- Entities and attributes
- Fetching and creating data
- Watching external objects
- Adding some final touches
- Bookworm: Wrap up
Project 17: Match Three
Build a fun puzzle game with SpriteKit.
- Match Three: Setting up
- A grid of balls
- Matching colors
- Making room for more
- Tracking score
- A puff of smoke
- Match Three: Wrap up
Project 18: SwiftData
Learn how predicates and relationships can power up your SwiftData code.
