What are the major new SwiftUI features from WWDC23?

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Major New SwiftUI Features from WWDC23

1. Graphics Capabilities

Color Mixing: A new mix modifier on Color allows blending colors by a specified amount.
Custom Shaders: Extended to precompile shaders before their first use to avoid frame drops.

2. Scroll View Enhancements

Fine-Grained Control: New APIs for deeper integration with the state of a scroll view.
Visibility Detection: Detect when a view's visibility changes due to scrolling, enabling experiences like auto-playing videos.

3. Accessibility Improvements

Built-in Accessibility Labels: Add additional accessibility information without overriding the framework-provided label.
Conditional Modifier Support: Enhanced support for accessibility actions based on app intent.

4. Xcode Previews

Dynamic Linking Architecture: Uses the same build artifacts for previews and build/run, avoiding project rebuilds and increasing iteration speed.
Previewable Macro: Allows the use of dynamic properties like state directly in Xcode previews, reducing boilerplate code.

5. Text and Selection Management

Programmatic Text Selection: Offers programmatic access to and control of text selection within text editing controls.

6. Interoperability with UIKit and AppKit

Gesture Recognition: Use any built-in or custom UI gesture recognizer in SwiftUI view hierarchy.
Animations: Set up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and drive them with SwiftUI, including fully custom animations.

7. Custom Containers and Mesh Gradients

Custom Containers: New APIs for creating custom containers.
Mesh Gradients: Beautiful mesh gradients for more visually appealing designs.

8. Window and Text Customizations

Window Behavior and Styling: New options to customize window behavior and styling in macOS.
Text Renderer API: Enables advanced visual effects and playful animations.

9. New Transitions and Animations

Zoom Transitions: New fluid zoom transitions where a tapped cell zooms in to fill the screen.
Gesture-Driven Animations: Enhanced support for gesture-driven animations.

For more detailed information, you can check out the following sessions:

Relevant Sessions

What’s new in SwiftUI
Platforms State of the Union
Enhance your UI animations and transitions

Provide feedback

What’s new in watchOS 11

Explore new opportunities on Apple Watch, including bringing Double Tap support to your watchOS app, making your Smart Stack widgets even more relevant and interactive, and displaying your iOS Live Activities in the Smart Stack.

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.

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.

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.

Platforms State of the Union

Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.

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.