UIKit best practices advanced
Asked on 06/16/2025
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For advanced best practices in UIKit, you might want to explore the session titled "Make your UIKit app more flexible" from WWDC 2025. This session covers several best practices to ensure your app is flexible, such as adopting the scene lifecycle, using container view controllers, and leveraging APIs like layout guides to build an adaptive UI. You can start by checking out the Make your UIKit app more flexible session at the "Next steps" chapter for a summary of best practices.
Additionally, the session "Enhance your UI animations and transitions" from WWDC 2024 provides tips for ensuring your UIKit app's code works perfectly with new transition features. You can find more details in the Enhance your UI animations and transitions session at the "Additional tips for UIKit" chapter.
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of best practices and new features in UIKit that can help you build more flexible and adaptive applications.
Make your UIKit app more flexible
Find out how your UIKit app can become more flexible on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro by using scenes and container view controllers. Learn to unlock your app’s full potential by transitioning from an app-centric to a scene-based lifecycle, including enhanced window resizing and improved multitasking. Explore enhancements to UISplitViewController, such as interactive column resizing and first-class support for inspector columns. And make your views and controls more adaptive by adopting new layout APIs.
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 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.