What is new in SwiftUI for macOS?
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What's New in SwiftUI for macOS
SwiftUI has introduced several new features and improvements for macOS, focusing on customization, interoperability, and enhanced graphics capabilities. Here are some of the key updates:
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Window Customization:
- You can now tailor the style and behavior of windows on macOS. For example, you can use the new plain window style to remove the default window chrome and give it a floating window level. This allows for more flexible window placement and behavior (What’s new in SwiftUI).
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Text Renderer API:
- A new text renderer API enables a whole new level of visual effects and playful animations, providing more control over text rendering and styling (Platforms State of the Union).
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Dynamic Linking in Xcode Previews:
- Xcode Previews now use a new dynamic linking architecture that avoids rebuilding your project when switching between preview and build/run, making the workflow smoother and more productive (Platforms State of the Union).
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New Scene Types:
- New scene types like utility windows have been introduced, allowing for more specialized window behaviors (What’s new in SwiftUI).
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Improved Interoperability:
- SwiftUI has improved its interoperability with UIKit and AppKit, allowing for better integration and use of gesture recognizers and animations across these frameworks (Platforms State of the Union).
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Enhanced Graphics Capabilities:
- New graphics capabilities include a mix modifier on colors for blending and extended custom shader features to precompile shaders, avoiding frame drops caused by lazy shader compilation (What’s new in SwiftUI).
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Scroll View Enhancements:
- New APIs provide fine-grained control over scroll views, including the ability to detect when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling and programmatically control scroll positions (What’s new in SwiftUI).
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Accessibility Improvements:
- SwiftUI now allows adding additional accessibility information to controls without overriding the framework-provided labels, enhancing accessibility support (What’s new in SwiftUI).
For a deeper dive into these features, you can check out the sessions:
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.
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.
What’s new in AppKit
Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. Get an overview of the new features in macOS Sequoia, and how to adopt them in your app. Explore new ways to integrate your existing code with SwiftUI. Learn about the improvements made to numerous AppKit controls, like toolbars, menus, text input, and more.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.