SwiftUI Cookbook: A guide for building beautiful and interactive SwiftUI apps 3rd Edition

SwiftUI Cookbook, 3rd Edition, is an absolute gem for anyone working with SwiftUI. Author Juan has done a fantastic job of presenting complex topics in a clear and approachable way.What really struck me is the book's recipe-style format. It's incredibly practical. Each recipe focuses on a specific task, giving you step-by-step instructions and explaining the code clearly. It's like having a seasoned SwiftUI chef guiding you through each dish, from prepping the ingredients to plating the final masterpiece!The book caters to developers of all levels. If you're just starting with SwiftUI, the early chapters provide a solid foundation. If you're more experienced, you can dive straight into the advanced recipes covering things like Combine, Core Data, and Swift Charts.And to top it all off, there's a companion GitHub repository with all the code samples. This means you can easily try out the recipes and adapt them to your own projects. Overall, this book is an essential resource that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to master SwiftUI.

Very well explained and broken down into understandable recipes. Highly recommended.

This is a really great book, but it won't teach you Swift unless you learn only by example. Everything is organized in aThis is the topic.This is how to perform an example of that topic. (1..., 2..., 3..., ....)This is how the code does what it does.It's 700 pages, with each topic covering about 10 or so. Everything is SwiftUI; there's only about 10 pages total that deal with UIKit, and it's there as a here's-how-to-integrate-one-with-the-other topic.The primary topics are drawing, animating, concurrency, Combine, SwiftData, Swift Charts, Firebase, and various view-organization options (nav view, scrollables, lists, stacks, tables, etc.).Jam-packed and well-written. Just know that this is not a textbook but rather a, well, cookbook. There are instructions for what to do but only the basics on why. Perhaps a similar example from an actual cookbook would be"3. Add sugar. Your customers will be more likely to buy the cookies if they include sugar."Whereas a textbook would be"Sugar is composed of building blocks called carbohydrates. When certain carbohydrates are combined, certain sugars are created that are used in food production. Sugar is a sweet-tasting ingredient, and bakers almost always use it when creating desserts. Because human tongues have a specific region devoted to sweet-tasting foods, sugar is an extremely important substance in the food industry."Great book for the right audience.

Finally a book that is almost 100% SwiftUI and also covers the latest Swift code (5.9 at the time of writing. I bought the Kindle version. This book has been updated to include the latest SwiftUI Code ready for IOS17 and all of the latest Swift updates. It has 2 very cool chapters...one that tells you how to integrate your UIKit app and conver to SwiftUI and a chapter on how to integrate your SwiftUI code to UIKit. Each chapter, no matter what it is about is layed out very nice. For example "Using LazyHStack and LazyVsStack has sections titled "Getting Ready", "How to do it...", "How it works...", "There's more". Lots of code, screen shots, as well as all code is available via a Github download. This book does not really teach you the core Swift code or core SwiftUI, so you will need to have some basic understanding of that but it then builds on that knowledge to show you how to do a lot of the common things that come up in programming. What I like about the book the most is it is truly a SwiftUI book... so many other books teach UIKit and just dabble in SwiftUI. I will be spending a lot of time in the book and I am glad I bought it. I hope this review helps you in deciding if this book is for you 🙂