Rapid Application Development with SwiftUI and Firebase

Rapid Application Development

with SwiftUI and Firebase
Peter Friese, Developer Advocate, Google
@peterfriese
🔥

Demo 1

Kaffeinated - A coffee tracking app

SwiftUI
• A declarative way to build your UI

• Everything is a view

• Every SwiftUI view is a struct

• You build UIs by composing views
• Views are a function of their state
Better state management!

struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
Text("Hello, World!")
}
}
SwiftUI Views

Demo 2
Building a List From Scratch

Improve app quality
Crashlytics
Performance
Monitoring
Test Lab
App Distribution
Grow your app
Analytics
Predictions
Cloud
Messaging
Remote
Config
A/B Testing
Dynamic

Links
In-app
Messaging
Build better apps
Auth
Cloud
Functions
Cloud
Firestore
Hosting
ML Kit
Realtime

Database
Cloud
Storage
bit.ly/what-is-firebase

Mobile Databases - The Hard Way
Database MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, etc
API Server REST API on top of database
Auth Service Protects the API server
Sync Logic REST API calls, caches, etc
SQLite Store data offline

Cross-platform?
You're going to have to write the
same code multiple times!

One-Time FetchesOffline ModeEffortless Syncing

Document
bird_type:
airspeed:
coconut_capacity:
isNative:
icon:
vector:
distances_traveled:
"swallow"
42.733
0.62
false
<binary data>
{x: 36.4255,
y: 25.1442,
z: 18.8816
[42, 39, 12,
42]

collection("restaurants").
where("city", " ==", "Cairo").
orderBy(“rating”, "desc").limit(10)
Here ya go!

Add Firebase to Your iOS Project
1. Create a new Firebase project

2. Register your iOS app

3. Download configuration file

4. Install the Firebase Cocoapod

5. Call FirebaseApp.configure()

db.collection("coffees").addSnapshotListener { (querySnapshot, error) in
var coffees = [Coffee]()
querySnapshot ?.documents.forEach { document in
let coffeeName = document.data()["name"] as? String ?? ""
let shortDescription = document.data()["shortDescription"] as? String ?? ""
let description = document.data()["description"] as? String ?? ""
let caffeineAmount = document.data()["caffeineAmount"] as? Int ?? 0
let coffee = Coffee(name: coffeeName,
shortDescription: shortDescription,
description: description,
caffeineAmount: caffeineAmount)
coffees.append(coffee)
}
self.coffees = coffees
}
Fetching Data from Firestore

Firestore & Codable
• One of our most-requested and
longest-running feature requests

• Released on October 22nd, 2019

• Makes fetching and writing much
easier

var coffees = [Coffee]()
querySnapshot ?.documents.forEach { document in
let coffeeName = document.data()["name"] as? String ?? ""
let shortDescription = document.data()["shortDescription"] as? String ?? ""
let description = document.data()["description"] as? String ?? ""
let caffeineAmount = document.data()["caffeineAmount"] as? Int ?? 0
let coffee = Coffee(name: coffeeName,
shortDescription: shortDescription,
description: description,
caffeineAmount: caffeineAmount)
coffees.append(coffee)
}
self.coffees = coffees
}
Fetching Data - w/o Codable

// Model
struct Coffee: Codable, Identifiable {
@DocumentID var id: String?
var name: String
var shortDescription: String
var description: String
}
// Elsewhere, fetch our data:
if let querySnapshot = querySnapshot {
self.coffees = querySnapshot.documents.compactMap { document -> Coffee? in
try? document.data(as: Coffee.self)
}
}
}
Fetching Data - w/ Codable

let db = Firestore.firestore()
do {
_ = try db.collection(“users/(user.uid)/consumption/")
.addDocument(from: consumption)
}
catch {
print(“Error: (error.localizedDescription).")
}
Saving Data to Firestore

let db = Firestore.firestore()
do {
_ = try db.collection(“users/(user.uid)/consumption/")
.addDocument(from: consumption)
}
catch {
print(“Error: (error.localizedDescription).")
}
Saving Data to Firestore
We didn’t sign in, so what’s
this kind of magic?

Auth.auth().signInAnonymously() { (authResult, error) in
guard let user = authResult ?.user else { return }
let isAnonymous = user.isAnonymous // true
let uid = user.uid
}
Anonymous Auth

let authUI = FUIAuth.defaultAuthUI()
authUI.shouldAutoUpgradeAnonymousUsers = true
authUI.providers = [
FUIGoogleAuth(),
FUIOAuth.appleAuthProvider()
]
return authUI.authViewController()
Sign in with Apple

Data Flow
• Property

• @State

• @Binding

• @ObservedObject

• @EnvironmentObject

• Sarah Reichelt: SwiftUI Data Flow
(bit.ly/SwiftUIDataFlow)

struct BarsView: View {
let bars: [Bar]
let max: Double
init(bars: [Bar]) {
self.bars = bars
self.max = bars.map { $0.value }.max() ?? 0
}
GeometryReader { geometry in
HStack(alignment: .bottom, spacing: 0) {
ForEach(self.bars) { bar in
Rectangle()
.fill(bar.color)
.frame(width: 10,
height: CGFloat(bar.value) /
CGFloat(self.max) * geometry.size.height)
Data Flow - Property

struct MainView: View {
@State var selectedTab = 0
@EnvironmentObject var appState: AppState
TabView(selection: $selectedTab) {
}
}
}
Data Flow - @State

class CoffeeListViewModel: ObservableObject {
@Published var coffees: [Coffee]
}
struct CoffeeListView: View {
@ObservedObject var viewModel: CoffeeListViewModel
NavigationView {
List(viewModel.coffees) { coffee in
CoffeeCell(coffee: coffee)
}
.navigationBarTitle("Coffees")
}
}
}
Data Flow - @ObservableObject

class AppState: ObservableObject {
@Published var coffees = [Coffee]()
@Published var consumptions = [Consumption]()
}
let appState = AppState()
let contentView = MainView()
window.rootViewController =
UIHostingController(rootView: contentView.environmentObject(appState))
struct MainView: View {
@EnvironmentObject var appState: AppState
HistoryView(viewModel: HistoryViewModel(consumption: appState.consumptions))
.tabItem { Image(systemName: “chart.bar.fill”)) }
}
}
Data Flow - @EnvironmentObject

Data Flow for Firebase Apps
MainViewAppState
[Coffee]
[Consumption]
User
...
Environment
CoffeeListView
CoffeeListVM
[Coffee]
Firestore

Demo 3
The Final App, Using Firebase

Conclusion
• Achieve great results in a short amount of time

• Documentation a bit lacking

• Great contributions from the community

• A number of things don’t work (yet)

• Fill the gaps with UIViewControllerRepresentable

Conclusion
• Work together well

• No critical issues so far

• Firebase team eager to hear from the community
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Thanks! Peter Friese, Developer Advocate, Google
@peterfriese
https://peterfriese.dev

https://medium.com/@peterfriese
https://medium.com/firebase-developers

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