Infinite Script

Build an iOS App from Scratch with SwiftUI

Background On Valentine’s day 2021 I put together a small static website, Infinite Love, to hold a handful of pictures. Because it is static, adding a new photo means editing the source and redeploying, not something you want to do from your phone. So I set out to wrap it in an iOS app with a proper “new post” button. I had done plenty of web development, but this was my first time writing anything for iOS. What follows is the walkthrough I wish I’d had: taking an empty Xcode project all the way to an app running on a real iPhone.