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What's New in SwiftUI

SwiftUI has received a plethora of new features and enhancements this year, making it an even more powerful tool for building user interfaces across Apple platforms. Here are some of the key updates:

1. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients:

   • SwiftUI now supports custom containers, allowing for more flexible and complex UI layouts.
   • Mesh gradients enable beautiful color blending, adding a new level of visual appeal to your apps.

2. Scrolling Customizations:

   • New APIs provide fine-grained control over scroll views. You can now react to changes in content offsets, content size, and more with the onScrollGeometryChange modifier.
   • Detect when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling, enabling features like auto-playing videos when they come into view.

3. Interoperability with UIKit and AppKit:

   • Gesture recognition has been factored out of UIKit, allowing you to use any built-in or custom gesture recognizer in your SwiftUI view hierarchy.
   • Animations have been factored out of SwiftUI, enabling you to set up and drive animations on UIKit or AppKit views using SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.

4. New Graphics Capabilities:

   • A new mix modifier on Color allows for blending colors by a given amount.
   • Custom shaders can now be precompiled to avoid frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation.

5. Enhanced Animations and Transitions:

   • SwiftUI animations can now be used to animate UIKit views, making it easier to build fluid gesture-driven animations.
   • New high-level transitions for navigation and presentations, such as the zoom transition, which morphs a tapped cell into the incoming view.

6. Framework Foundations:

   • Improvements to foundational building blocks of the framework, including better support for custom containers and ease of use enhancements.
   • Enhanced interoperability with other frameworks, making it easier to integrate SwiftUI into existing projects.

7. Crafting Immersive Experiences:

   • New tools for creating immersive experiences, including support for volumes and immersive spaces.
   • A new text renderer API that enables advanced visual effects and playful animations.

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

Relevant Sessions

• Platforms State of the Union
• What’s new in SwiftUI
• Enhance your UI animations and transitions

These sessions provide a comprehensive look at the new features and improvements in SwiftUI, as well as how to leverage them in your applications.