What new in SwiftUI this year?

This year, SwiftUI has introduced several exciting new features and improvements. Here are some of the highlights:

1. Custom Containers: SwiftUI now supports custom containers, allowing for more flexible and reusable UI components.
2. Mesh Gradients: You can create beautiful mesh gradients to enhance the visual appeal of your apps.
3. 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.
4. Custom Animations: You can set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and drive them with SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.
5. Xcode Previews: A new dynamic linking architecture in Xcode Previews uses the same build artifacts for previews and when you build and run, making the workflow smoother and more productive. The new previewable macro also simplifies setting up previews.
6. Text Renderer API: This new API enables advanced visual effects and playful animations for text.
7. Swift 6 Language Mode: SwiftUI has improved its APIs to make it easier to adopt the new Swift 6 language mode, which includes compile-time data race safety.
8. Accessibility Enhancements: New features such as conditional modifier support and app intent-based accessibility actions have been added to improve accessibility.
9. Interoperability: Improved interoperability with UIKit and AppKit, including the ability to use gesture recognizers and animations across these frameworks.

For a detailed overview, you can check out the session "What’s new in SwiftUI" and the "Platforms State of the Union".

Relevant Sessions

• What’s new in SwiftUI
• Platforms State of the Union