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What's New in UIKit
At WWDC, Apple introduced several advancements in UIKit across different sessions. Here are some highlights:
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New Design System: UIKit now supports a vibrant new design system featuring a material called Liquid Glass, which is dynamic and translucent, enhancing the visual appeal of apps (What’s new in UIKit).
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UI Update Link: A new feature in iOS 18, UI Update Link, simplifies implementing complex animations requiring periodic UI updates. It offers automatic view tracking and low latency mode for drawing applications (What’s new in UIKit).
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SwiftUI Interoperability: UIKit has improved interoperability with SwiftUI, allowing the use of SwiftUI animations to animate UIKit views. This integration makes it easier to build fluid gesture-driven animations (What’s new in UIKit).
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Architectural Improvements: iOS 26 introduces built-in support for Swift observable objects in UIKit, enabling automatic observation tracking and reducing the need for manual updates (What’s new in UIKit).
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Menu Bar on iPadOS: The menu bar from macOS is now available on iPadOS, providing a familiar interface element for users and developers (What’s new in UIKit).
These updates reflect Apple's ongoing efforts to enhance UIKit's capabilities, making it more adaptable and integrated with modern design and development practices.
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.
What’s new in UIKit
Modernize your app with the latest APIs in UIKit, including enhanced menu bar support, automatic observation tracking, a new UI update method, and improvements to animations. We’ll also cover how you can include SwiftUI scenes in your UIKit app and explore SF Symbols, HDR color pickers, and more.
Build a UIKit app with the new design
Update your UIKit app to take full advantage of the new design system. We’ll dive into key changes to tab views, split views, bars, presentations, search, and controls, and show you how to use Liquid Glass in your custom UI. To get the most out of this video, we recommend first watching “Get to know the new design system” for general design guidance.