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At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several exciting updates to SwiftUI. Here are some of the key changes:
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Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI now includes a new mix modifier on colors, allowing you to blend colors beautifully. Additionally, custom shaders can be precompiled to avoid frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation.
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Scroll View Enhancements: New APIs provide fine-grained control over scroll views. You can now react to changes in content, offsets, and content size with the
onScrollGeometryChangemodifier. This includes detecting when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling, enabling experiences like auto-playing videos. -
Interoperability with UIKit and AppKit: SwiftUI now allows animations to be set up on UIKit or AppKit views and driven by SwiftUI, including fully custom animations. Gesture recognition has been improved, allowing built-in or custom UI gesture recognizers to be used in SwiftUI view hierarchies.
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Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients: SwiftUI introduces custom containers and mesh gradients, providing more flexibility in UI design.
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TabView Syntax: A new syntax for TabView in SwiftUI helps catch common errors at build time, ensuring consistency in tab selection types.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the session What’s new in SwiftUI (16:56) and Platforms State of the Union (35:23).
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.
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.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS
iPadOS 18 introduces a new navigation system that gives people the flexibility to choose between using a tab bar or sidebar. The newly redesigned tab bar provides more space for content and other functionality. Learn how to use SwiftUI and UIKit to enable customization features – like adding, removing and reordering tabs – to enable a more personal touch in your app.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.