what's new with swiftUI?
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At WWDC 2024, several new features and improvements were introduced for SwiftUI. Here are some of the highlights:
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New Features for Fresh Apps: SwiftUI now includes a new tab view, beautiful mesh gradients, and snappy controls to help freshen up your apps. The sidebar in iOS 18 has become more flexible, enhancing the user interface experience.
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Graphics and Scrolling Enhancements: SwiftUI has new graphics capabilities, including a mix modifier for colors and extended custom shader features. There are also new APIs for scroll views, allowing for more control over scroll positions and content alignment.
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Framework Foundations: Improvements have been made to the core components of SwiftUI, including new APIs for custom container views and enhancements for ease of use. The Swift 6 language mode introduces compile-time data race safety, and SwiftUI's APIs have been updated to support this.
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Interoperability: Significant improvements have been made in the integration of gestures and animations, allowing for better interoperability between SwiftUI and UIKit/AppKit.
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Accessibility and Previews: SwiftUI now supports additional accessibility features and has improved Xcode previews with a new dynamic linking architecture, making it easier to iterate and set up previews.
For a detailed overview, you can watch the session What’s new in SwiftUI (00:00:07).
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