Over the last months, we’ve 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. Based mostly on this expertise and the suggestions we obtained, 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 a number of emphasis on explaining view timber (which in truth would be the first chapter of the e book) on this re-creation, in addition to how view timber are interpreted by way of state, format, animations, and extra. The e book contains quite a bit of latest 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 might 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 possibility, as many people nonetheless should assist older platforms. As a substitute, we selected to amend the present chapters with callout bins, mentioning related adjustments. As well as, we’ll have a separate iOS 17 chapter in the meanwhile. 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.
As a result 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 will probably be immediately (Friday June sixteenth) at 18:00 GMT+1 (9am PST). You may submit any questions you’ve gotten for us over at this Github repository.
Till now we’ve up to date all of our books at no cost ever since we began objc.io (over ten years in the past!). Since this replace of Pondering in SwiftUI will not be an incremental one, however an entire rewrite from the bottom up, we have determined to launch it as a brand new product – the prelease model is obtainable now.
