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At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several exciting updates to SwiftUI. Here are some of the key changes:

  1. 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.

  2. 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 onScrollGeometryChange modifier. This includes detecting when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling, enabling experiences like auto-playing videos.

  3. 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.

  4. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients: SwiftUI introduces custom containers and mesh gradients, providing more flexibility in UI design.

  5. 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

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

Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI

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Platforms State of the Union

Platforms State of the Union

Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.