What’s new for swiftUI in 2023

In 2023, several exciting updates and new features were introduced for SwiftUI. Here are some of the highlights:

1. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients: SwiftUI now supports custom containers and beautiful mesh gradients, allowing for more creative and visually appealing designs (Platforms State of the Union).

2. Scrolling Customizations: There are new APIs for fine-grained control over scroll views, including the ability to detect changes in a view's visibility due to scrolling and programmatically control scroll positions (What’s new in SwiftUI).

3. Interoperability with UIKit and AppKit: Significant improvements have been made to the integration of gestures and animations between SwiftUI and UIKit/AppKit. You can now use any built-in or custom UI gesture recognizer in your SwiftUI view hierarchy and set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views driven by SwiftUI (Platforms State of the Union).

4. Xcode Previews Enhancements: Xcode Previews now use a new dynamic linking architecture, making the workflow smoother and more productive. A new @Previewable macro allows for easier setup of previews with dynamic properties like state (Platforms State of the Union).

5. New Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI has introduced a new mix modifier on colors for blending and extended custom shader features to precompile shaders, avoiding frame drops (What’s new in SwiftUI).

6. Swift 6 Language Mode: The new Swift 6 language mode enables compile-time data race safety, and SwiftUI has improved its APIs to make it easier to adopt this new mode (What’s new in SwiftUI).

7. Text Renderer API: A new text renderer API allows for advanced visual effects and playful animations, enhancing the text rendering capabilities in SwiftUI (Platforms State of the Union).

8. New TabView and Document Launch Experience: The TabView API has been updated for more flexibility, and there are enhancements for document-based apps, including a new document launch experience (What’s new in SwiftUI).

For a detailed overview, you can watch the session What’s new in SwiftUI.