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SwiftUI provides a powerful and flexible way to create lists in your applications. Here are some key points about using lists in SwiftUI:
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List Initialization:
- Lists can be initialized with a collection parameter, which is a convenience for creating a
ForEachview. This generates views for each element in a collection and provides those to its container. - You can also manually write out a set of views to create a list.
- Lists can be initialized with a collection parameter, which is a convenience for creating a
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Customization:
- Lists can be customized through the use of view modifiers. For example, you can add swipe actions to each row.
- The
searchablemodifier can be applied to a list to make it searchable. This allows users to filter the content displayed in the list.
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Composition:
- SwiftUI supports creating lists in various ways, including combining different kinds of content together using APIs for composition.
- You can incrementally build up an entire app by composing additional containers and modifiers.
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State-Driven Views:
- SwiftUI views are state-driven. When your view state changes over time, SwiftUI automatically keeps your UI up to date.
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Advanced Constructions:
- The view-based list initializer enables creating more advanced constructions, such as multiple collections of data organized into sections.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the following sessions from WWDC 2024:
- SwiftUI essentials (07:55)
- Demystify SwiftUI containers (03:07)
These sessions cover the fundamentals of using lists in SwiftUI, including initialization, customization, and composition.
Demystify SwiftUI containers
Learn about the capabilities of SwiftUI container views and build a mental model for how subviews are managed by their containers. Leverage new APIs to build your own custom containers, create modifiers to customize container content, and give your containers that extra polish that helps your apps stand out.
SwiftUI essentials
Join us on a tour of SwiftUI, Apple’s declarative user interface framework. Learn essential concepts for building apps in SwiftUI, like views, state variables, and layout. Discover the breadth of APIs for building fully featured experiences and crafting unique custom components. Whether you’re brand new to SwiftUI or an experienced developer, you’ll learn how to take advantage of what SwiftUI has to offer when building great apps.
Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI
SwiftUI helps you build great apps on all Apple platforms and is the preferred toolkit for bringing your content into the living room with tvOS 18. Learn how to use SwiftUI to create familiar layouts and controls from TVMLKit, and get tips and best practices.
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.
What’s new in AppKit
Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. Get an overview of the new features in macOS Sequoia, and how to adopt them in your app. Explore new ways to integrate your existing code with SwiftUI. Learn about the improvements made to numerous AppKit controls, like toolbars, menus, text input, and more.
Get started with Dynamic Type
Dynamic Type lets people choose their preferred text size across the system and all of their apps. To help you get started supporting Dynamic Type, we’ll cover the fundamentals: How it works, how to find issues with scaling text in your app, and how to take practical steps using SwiftUI and UIKit to create a great Dynamic Type experience. We’ll also show how you can best use the Large Content Viewer to make navigation controls accessible to everyone.