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Latest Updates on SwiftUI

Key Features and Enhancements

1. Custom Animations and Interoperability:

   • You can now set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and drive them with SwiftUI, including fully custom animations. This enhances the interoperability between SwiftUI and other UI frameworks (Platforms State of the Union).

2. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients:

   • SwiftUI introduces custom containers and mesh gradients, allowing for more flexible and visually appealing UI designs (Platforms State of the Union).

3. Scrolling Customizations:

   • New APIs provide fine-grained control over scroll views, including the ability to react to changes in content offsets and sizes, detect view visibility changes due to scrolling, and programmatically control scroll positions (What’s new in SwiftUI).

4. Graphics Capabilities:

   • SwiftUI now supports mixing colors with a new mix modifier and precompiling custom shaders to avoid frame drops (What’s new in SwiftUI).

5. 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).

6. Dynamic Linking in Xcode Previews:

   • Xcode Previews now use a new dynamic linking architecture that shares build artifacts between previews and the actual app, improving the development experience (Platforms State of the Union).

7. Declarative UI and State Management:

   • SwiftUI continues to emphasize a declarative approach to UI development, automatically keeping the UI up to date with state changes, reducing boilerplate code and update bugs (SwiftUI essentials).

8. Adoption Across Apple Platforms:

   • SwiftUI is increasingly used across various Apple platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. It is used in both new apps and new features in existing apps (Platforms State of the Union).

Sessions to Explore

• Platforms State of the Union
• What’s new in SwiftUI
• SwiftUI essentials
• Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI

These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the latest features and best practices for using SwiftUI in your apps.