WHat's new for iPad UIs?

Generated on 7/31/2024

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What's New for iPad UIs?

Apple introduced several enhancements for iPad UIs at WWDC 2024, focusing on both UIKit and SwiftUI. Here are the key updates:

UIKit Enhancements

  1. Document Launch Experience:

    • Redesigned launch experience for document-based apps, allowing full control over launch views and support for template document creation. This helps in guiding users to create their first document while maintaining a great browsing experience.
    • Evolve your document launch experience

  2. Tab Bars and Sidebars:

    • Visual updates to tab bars with a new compact look, reducing empty space and bringing app content to the forefront.
    • Combined tab and sidebar experience with new APIs to describe app structure, allowing for quick navigation and deeper section access.
    • Customization features for personalizing the sidebar and tab bar through drag and drop.
    • Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS

  3. Apple Pencil Pro Integration:

    • Support for new features of Apple Pencil Pro, including the squeeze gesture for tool switching and undo slider.
    • Enhanced feedback generators and gesture recognizers for a more expressive drawing experience.
    • What’s new in UIKit

  4. Fluid Transitions:

    • New zoom transition for navigation and presentations, providing a continuously interactive experience.
    • What’s new in UIKit

SwiftUI Enhancements

  1. Custom Controls:

    • Ability to create custom resizable controls, such as buttons and toggles, that can be used in Control Center or the lock screen.
    • What’s new in SwiftUI

  2. TabView Updates:

  3. Interoperability:

    • Improved interoperability between SwiftUI and UIKit, allowing gesture recognizers and animations to be shared across frameworks.
    • Platforms State of the Union

These updates aim to enhance the user experience on iPad by providing more control, customization, and seamless integration between different UI frameworks.

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What’s new in SwiftUI

What’s new in SwiftUI

Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.

Evolve your document launch experience

Evolve your document launch experience

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What’s new in UIKit

What’s new in UIKit

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Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS

Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS

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Platforms State of the Union

Platforms State of the Union

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