SwiftUI custom container views
Generated on 7/30/2024
1 search

This post is brought to you by Tailscan,
the best devtool for Tailwind CSS.
To learn about building custom container views in SwiftUI, you should check out the session titled "Demystify SwiftUI containers" from WWDC 2024. This session covers several key aspects of creating custom containers, including:
- Composition: How to make custom containers support any composition of content, maximizing their flexibility.
- Sections: Adding support for sections within custom containers.
- Customization: Defining custom modifiers for decorating content within a container.
For a detailed walkthrough, you can start with the following chapters from the session:
Additionally, the session "SwiftUI essentials" also touches on the use of view builders and view modifiers, which are essential concepts when working with container views in SwiftUI. You can explore the following chapters for more insights:
These sessions will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how to create and customize container views in SwiftUI.

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.

Demystify SwiftUI containers
Learn about the capabilities of SwiftUI container views and build a mental model for how subviews are managed by their containers. Leverage new APIs to build your own custom containers, create modifiers to customize container content, and give your containers that extra polish that helps your apps stand out.

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.