Latest swift ui

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The latest updates in SwiftUI were presented in the session titled What’s new in SwiftUI. Here are some of the key highlights:

  1. New Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI now includes a new mix modifier on colors, allowing you to blend colors together by a given amount. Additionally, custom shaders can now be precompiled to avoid frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation.

  2. Scroll View Enhancements: There are new APIs for fine-grained control over scroll views. You can now react to changes in content, offsets, and content size with the onScrollGeometryChange modifier. This allows for features like auto-playing videos when a view becomes visible due to scrolling.

  3. 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. Views in SwiftUI are now evaluated on the main actor by default.

  4. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients: New custom container APIs and mesh gradients have been introduced, providing more flexibility and creative options for developers.

  5. Interoperability: SwiftUI now offers better interoperability with UIKit and AppKit, including the ability to set up and drive animations on these views using SwiftUI.

For a deeper dive into these features, you can watch the session What’s new in SwiftUI.

Additionally, the session SwiftUI essentials covers fundamental aspects and built-in capabilities of SwiftUI, including state-driven views, custom layouts, and animations.

For a broader overview of the platform updates, including SwiftUI, you can refer to the Platforms State of the Union session.

SwiftUI essentials

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

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

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.

Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

Discover how to use HealthKit to create experiences that take full advantage of the spatial canvas. Learn the capabilities of HealthKit on the platform, find out how to bring an existing iPadOS app to visionOS, and explore the special considerations governing HealthKit during a Guest User session. You’ll also learn ways to use SwiftUI, Swift Charts, and Swift concurrency to craft innovative experiences with HealthKit.

Platforms State of the Union

Platforms State of the Union

Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.