What was new in swiftui this year?

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

1. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients: SwiftUI now supports custom containers and beautiful mesh gradients, allowing for more creative and visually appealing designs (Platforms State of the Union).

2. Scrolling Customizations: There are new APIs for 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).

3. Interoperability with UIKit and AppKit: SwiftUI has improved interoperability with UIKit and AppKit, allowing for better integration and the ability to use gesture recognizers and animations across these frameworks (Platforms State of the Union).

4. Xcode Previews Enhancements: Xcode Previews now use a dynamic linking architecture, which avoids rebuilding projects when switching between preview and build modes. This results in a smoother and more productive workflow. Additionally, the new previewable macro allows for easier setup of previews with dynamic properties like state (Platforms State of the Union).

5. New Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI introduced a new mix modifier on colors for blending, and extended custom shader features to precompile shaders, avoiding frame drops (What’s new in SwiftUI).

6. Accessibility Improvements: SwiftUI now allows adding additional accessibility information to controls without overriding the framework-provided labels. This includes support for conditional modifiers and app intent-based accessibility actions (What’s new in SwiftUI).

7. Text Renderer API: A new text renderer API enables advanced visual effects and animations, enhancing the text handling capabilities of SwiftUI (Platforms State of the Union).

8. Swift 6 Language Mode: The new Swift 6 language mode introduces compile-time data race safety, and SwiftUI has updated its APIs to make it easier to adopt this new mode (What’s new in SwiftUI).

For a detailed overview, you can watch the full session on What’s new in SwiftUI.