list out what's new in SwiftUI since ios 15, remember to include code sample and what ios version

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Since iOS 15, SwiftUI has introduced several new features and improvements. Here are some of the highlights:

  1. Custom Containers: SwiftUI now allows for the creation of custom containers, providing more flexibility in how you structure your UI components.

  2. Mesh Gradients: A new feature that lets you create beautiful, complex gradients for your UI.

  3. Scrolling Customizations: You can now have fine-grained control over scroll views, including reacting to changes in content offsets and sizes. This allows for features like auto-playing videos when they come into view.

  4. Custom Animations: SwiftUI now supports setting up animations on UIKit or AppKit views, which can be driven by SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.

  5. Improved Interoperability: Gesture recognition has been factored out of UIKit, allowing you to use any built-in or custom UI gesture recognizer in your SwiftUI view hierarchy.

  6. Accessibility Enhancements: SwiftUI has added new accessibility features, such as conditional modifier support and app intent-based accessibility actions.

  7. Xcode Previews: A new dynamic linking architecture in Xcode Previews allows for a smoother workflow by using the same build artifacts for previews and when you build and run.

  8. Text Renderer API: This new API enables advanced visual effects and animations for text.

Here is a simple code example demonstrating the use of mesh gradients in SwiftUI:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        Rectangle()
            .fill(
                LinearGradient(
                    gradient: Gradient(colors: [.blue, .purple, .pink]),
                    startPoint: .topLeading,
                    endPoint: .bottomTrailing
                )
            )
            .frame(width: 200, height: 200)
    }
}

For more detailed information, you can refer to the What’s new in SwiftUI session.