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To optimize SwiftUI, there are several new features and techniques introduced at WWDC 2024 that you can leverage:

  1. Adaptive Views: SwiftUI automatically provides adaptivity along several dimensions, such as dark mode, accessibility features, and localization. This adaptivity is a key feature of SwiftUI's declarative views, allowing them to describe their functionality rather than their exact visual construction. This can help in optimizing your app for different contexts and user preferences.

  2. Graphics Capabilities: New graphics capabilities in SwiftUI include a mix modifier on colors and extended custom shader features. Precompiling shaders before their first use can help avoid frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation, which is crucial for performance optimization.

  3. Scroll View Enhancements: SwiftUI now offers fine-grained control over scroll views with the onScrollGeometryChange API. This allows you to performantly react to changes in content, offsets, and content size, which can be used to optimize scrolling experiences.

  4. Dynamic Layouts: Using the dynamic type size environment keypath, you can create layouts that adapt to different text sizes, including accessibility sizes. This ensures that your app remains usable and visually appealing across different user settings.

  5. Interoperability with Other Frameworks: SwiftUI's ability to interoperate with other frameworks, such as Swift Data and Swift Charts, allows you to build apps that are both performant and feature-rich. This interoperability can be used to optimize data handling and visualization in your app.

For more detailed information on these topics, you can refer to the following sessions from WWDC 2024:

These sessions provide insights into the latest SwiftUI features and how to effectively use them to optimize your app.

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