UIKit rendering engine
Asked on 10/03/2024
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The UIKit rendering engine has seen significant updates, particularly in its integration with SwiftUI. This year, Apple has focused on enhancing interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI, allowing for more seamless integration of views written in both frameworks. Gesture recognition has been decoupled from UIKit, enabling the use of gesture recognizers in SwiftUI view hierarchies, even for views not directly backed by UIKit. Additionally, animations have been separated from SwiftUI, allowing developers to set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and drive them with SwiftUI, including custom animations.
For more details on these updates, you can refer to the session Platforms State of the Union (38:32) where these enhancements are discussed. Additionally, the session What’s new in UIKit (03:35) covers SwiftUI animations in UIKit, providing further insights into the new capabilities.
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