what are the updates of swifttui on 2024?

Generated on 9/26/2024

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In 2024, SwiftUI received several updates that enhance its capabilities and integration with other frameworks. Here are the key updates:

  1. Previews and Customizations: SwiftUI now features a new dynamic linking architecture for previews, which uses the same build artifacts for both previews and when you build and run your app. This improves the developer experience by making it more seamless and efficient.

  2. Interoperability: There have been significant improvements in interoperability between SwiftUI and other frameworks like UIKit and AppKit. 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. Additionally, animations have been factored out of SwiftUI, enabling you to set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and drive them with SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.

  3. New Features: SwiftUI has introduced new features such as custom containers, mesh gradients, and scrolling customizations. These additions provide developers with more tools to create rich and interactive user interfaces.

  4. TabView Syntax: In iOS 18, SwiftUI's TabView has a new syntax that makes it easier to catch common errors at build time. This new syntax ensures consistency in the selection type across all tabs.

These updates make SwiftUI a more powerful and flexible tool for building user interfaces across Apple's platforms. For more detailed information, you can refer to the Platforms State of the Union (35:23) session.