Over the past months, we’ve got labored laborious at updating our e-book Pondering in SwiftUI. Over the previous years, we had the possibility to conduct SwiftUI workshops for a lot of corporations. Based mostly on this expertise and the suggestions we obtained, our method to explaining SwiftUI has developed loads. 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 actual fact 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, format, animations, and extra. The e-book contains loads 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 all the e-book for iOS 17 solely can be not an possibility, as many people nonetheless must help older platforms. As an alternative, 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 interim. 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.
Resulting from 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 stay stream. The first stay stream will probably be at this time (Friday June sixteenth) at 18:00 GMT+1 (9am PST). You possibly can submit any questions you might have for us over at this Github repository.
Till now we’ve got up to date all of our books without spending a dime ever since we began objc.io (over ten years in the past!). Since this replace of Pondering in SwiftUI isn’t 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.