Chris and Florian’s new e book Pondering in SwiftUI got here out in March 2020 already, so I’m late to the celebration with this announcement. However I nonetheless need to point out it right here as a result of (a) it’s a very good e book and (b) I had a small half in its creation as a reviewer. This week’s launch of an up to date model for the newest SwiftUI model is an efficient alternative.
The e book is brief (150 pages), and that’s one in all its strengths. It doesn’t need to be a complete reference guide for each SwiftUI API — moderately, it needs to assist readers construct a psychological mannequin of how SwiftUI works on a elementary degree.
The primary version acquired plenty of reward on Twitter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The second version contains new content material on a few of the new SwiftUI options which can be a part of iOS 14/macOS 11, in addition to refined explanations on SwiftUI’s format system. In case you’re a Swift Discuss subscriber, you already know that Florian and Chris did a deep dive into the format system this 12 months.
I’m a giant fan of the workouts included within the e book. Every chapter ends with a number of workouts that encourage you to resolve a sensible drawback utilizing the belongings you simply realized. Personally, doing the workouts undoubtedly gave me a deeper understanding of the fabric than simply studying about it.
On a aspect be aware, I really like this work as a reviewer, and I believe I’m good at it. I you’re planning to put in writing a e book about Swift or iOS and are in search of a technical reviewer, hit me up.
