What's new in cross platform swift ui?

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In the latest updates for cross-platform SwiftUI, several enhancements have been introduced to improve the developer experience and expand the capabilities of SwiftUI across different Apple platforms. Here are some of the key updates:

  1. Interoperability: SwiftUI now offers better interoperability with UIKit and AppKit. Gesture recognition has been factored out of UIKit, allowing developers to use any built-in or custom UI gesture recognizer in SwiftUI view hierarchies. Animations have also been factored out, enabling animations on UIKit or AppKit views to be driven by SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.

  2. Code Sharing: SwiftUI continues to facilitate code sharing across platforms. It has been used to consolidate and simplify codebases across iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and VisionOS, making it easier to build apps that work seamlessly across different devices.

  3. New Features: This year, SwiftUI introduces custom containers, mesh gradients, and scrolling customizations. These features provide developers with more tools to create visually appealing and interactive user interfaces.

  4. Graphics Capabilities: New graphics capabilities include a mix modifier on colors for blending and extended custom shader features to precompile shaders, reducing frame drops.

  5. Scrolling Enhancements: Developers now have more control over scroll views with APIs that allow for fine-grained control over scroll view states, such as content offsets and visibility changes.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session Platforms State of the Union (35:23) and What’s new in SwiftUI (16:18).

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