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Swift Charts at WWDC 2024

Apple introduced several new features and improvements for Swift Charts at WWDC 2024, focusing on making data visualizations more accessible, efficient, and customizable. Here are the key highlights:

Sessions Mentioned

  1. Swift Charts: Vectorized and function plots
  2. What’s new in SwiftUI

Key Features and Improvements

  1. Function Plots:

    • Swift Charts now supports plotting mathematical functions, including line plots and area plots.
    • You can customize the appearance of these plots using modifiers, similar to SwiftUI.
    • Supports plotting parametric functions and piecewise functions.
    • Example: Visualizing the area under a curve or between two functions.
  2. Vectorized Plots:

    • New vectorized plot APIs for handling larger datasets more efficiently.
    • Suitable for extensive data visualizations like scatterplots and heat maps.
    • Example: Visualizing solar panel installations with customized size and color based on data attributes.
  3. Accessibility:

    • Swift Charts ensures that data visualizations are accessible by default, including support for VoiceOver.
  4. Performance Enhancements:

    • Vectorized plots can process entire collections in parallel, improving performance.
    • Best practices include grouping data by style and avoiding unnecessary computations during rendering.

Chapter Markers for "Swift Charts: Vectorized and function plots"

Additional Context from "What’s new in SwiftUI"

  • Swift Charts integration with SwiftUI makes it easy to draw beautiful graphs and track various metrics.
  • Example: Using Swift Charts to graph attendance and other dynamic data in a SwiftUI app.

For more detailed information, you can watch the full session on Swift Charts: Vectorized and function plots.