Over the last months, we’ve got labored onerous at updating our e-book Considering in SwiftUI. Over the previous years, we had the prospect to conduct SwiftUI workshops for a lot of corporations. Based mostly on this expertise and the suggestions we bought, our strategy to explaining SwiftUI has advanced rather a lot. Subsequently, we selected to do a full rewrite of the e-book to be on par with our workshops.
The final construction nonetheless is similar to the earlier version, however the content material is model new. We put lots of emphasis on explaining view timber (which in reality would be the first chapter of the e-book) on this re-creation, in addition to how view timber are interpreted when it comes to state, structure, animations, and extra. The e-book contains rather a lot of latest diagrams to visualise these ideas.
After WWDC, we have 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 may be bizarre for those who can goal iOS 17 / macOS 14. But rewriting your entire e-book for iOS 17 solely can be not an choice, as many people nonetheless should assist older platforms. As a substitute, we selected to amend the present chapters with callout containers, 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.
Attributable to this transition part, 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 subjects. Throughout this prerelease part, we’re additionally internet hosting a weekly Q&A stay stream. The first stay stream will probably be immediately (Friday June sixteenth) at 18:00 GMT+1 (9am PST). You possibly can submit any questions you could have for us over at this Github repository.
Till now we’ve got 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 Considering 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 on the market now.
