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Apple's WWDC 2024 sessions highlighted several key advancements in the interoperability between SwiftUI and UIKit. SwiftUI now offers seamless integration with UIKit and AppKit, allowing developers to use views and view controllers from these frameworks within SwiftUI applications. This is achieved through protocols like UIViewRepresentable, which facilitate the creation and updating of UIKit views using SwiftUI's declarative syntax. Conversely, SwiftUI views can be embedded into UIKit or AppKit hierarchies using classes such as HostingViewController.
Additionally, UIKit has been enhanced to support SwiftUI animations, enabling developers to animate UIKit views using SwiftUI's animation types. This includes the ability to create fluid gesture-driven animations with SwiftUI's spring animation, maintaining continuous velocity across interactive and non-interactive parts of animations.
For more detailed insights, you can refer to the sessions:
- Platforms State of the Union (35:12) for an overview of UI framework integration.
- SwiftUI essentials (20:30) for details on SDK interoperability.
- What’s new in UIKit (03:35) for updates on using SwiftUI animations in UIKit.
SwiftUI essentials
Join us on a tour of SwiftUI, Apple’s declarative user interface framework. Learn essential concepts for building apps in SwiftUI, like views, state variables, and layout. Discover the breadth of APIs for building fully featured experiences and crafting unique custom components. Whether you’re brand new to SwiftUI or an experienced developer, you’ll learn how to take advantage of what SwiftUI has to offer when building great apps.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.
Get started with Dynamic Type
Dynamic Type lets people choose their preferred text size across the system and all of their apps. To help you get started supporting Dynamic Type, we’ll cover the fundamentals: How it works, how to find issues with scaling text in your app, and how to take practical steps using SwiftUI and UIKit to create a great Dynamic Type experience. We’ll also show how you can best use the Large Content Viewer to make navigation controls accessible to everyone.
Enhance your UI animations and transitions
Explore how to adopt the zoom transition in navigation and presentations to increase the sense of continuity in your app, and learn how to animate UIKit views with SwiftUI animations to make it easier to build animations that feel continuous.