what new swiftui

Asked on 05/01/2025

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At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several new features and improvements in SwiftUI. Here are some of the highlights:

  1. Graphics Capabilities: SwiftUI now allows for more advanced graphics, including a new mix modifier on colors to blend them together. Custom shaders can be precompiled to avoid frame drops.

  2. Scroll View Enhancements: There are new APIs for more granular control over scroll views, including reacting to changes in content and offsets, and detecting when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling.

  3. Text Management: SwiftUI now offers programmatic access to text selection within text editing controls, allowing for features like suggested rhymes or text completions.

  4. Swift 6 Language Mode: The new Swift 6 language mode introduces compile-time data race safety, and SwiftUI has improved its APIs to support this.

  5. Interoperability: Significant improvements have been made to the integration of gestures and animations, allowing for better interoperability between SwiftUI and UIKit/AppKit.

  6. Accessibility: New accessibility features include conditional modifier support and app intent-based accessibility actions.

  7. Xcode Previews: A new dynamic linking architecture in Xcode previews allows for faster iteration by switching between preview and build without needing to rebuild the project.

For more detailed information, you can watch the session What’s new in SwiftUI.