what's new in swiftui on 2024

Generated on 8/22/2024

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In 2024, SwiftUI introduced several new features and improvements to enhance app development across Apple platforms. Here are some of the highlights:

  1. Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI now includes a new mix modifier on colors, allowing you to blend colors beautifully. The custom shader feature has been extended to precompile shaders, reducing frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation.

  2. Scroll View Enhancements: There are new APIs for more granular control over scroll views. You can now react to changes in content, offsets, and content size with onScrollGeometryChange. Additionally, you can detect when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling, enabling experiences like auto-playing videos.

  3. Swift 6 Language Mode: This new mode enables compile-time data race safety. SwiftUI's APIs have been improved to facilitate adopting this new language mode, with views evaluated on the main actor by default.

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

  5. Interoperability: SwiftUI has improved interoperability with UIKit and AppKit, allowing for animations and gesture recognition to be shared across these frameworks.

  6. New APIs and Tools: The introduction of new TabView APIs, document launch experiences, and windowing and input capabilities for macOS and visionOS apps.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session What’s new in SwiftUI (00:00:07) and Platforms State of the Union (35:23).

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