Apple Vision Pro is coming soon, and it is the perfect time to look at SwiftUI API, which allows us to adapt our apps to the immersive world that visionOS provides us. Apple states that the best way to build an app is with Swift and SwiftUI. This week, we will learn how to use SwiftUI to build a visionOS app.
The second iteration of the StoreKit framework was the most significant change in my apps during the last few years. The recent version of the StoreKit framework has fully adopted Swift language features like async and await. This week, we will talk about the StoreKitTest framework, which is not a part of StoreKit 2 but is tightly coupled with it.
MapKit provides us with a very rich API as part of the next iteration of the SwiftUI framework. This week, we will continue the topic by learning how to handle interactions using the new MapKit API in SwiftUI.
In this post, we will continue the topic of the new MapKit API in SwiftUI. We will cover one of the most critical cases of displaying a map. This week, we will learn about camera position and map bounds.
Last week, we started a series of posts about the new MapKit API in SwiftUI. We talked about the basics of the new API, and now we can continue the topic by covering the customization part of new APIs. This week, we will learn the customization points of MapKit API in SwiftUI.
MapKit integration with SwiftUI significantly changed this year. In the previous version of SwiftUI, we had very basic functionality of MKMapView wrapped into the SwiftUI view named Map. Fortunately, things changed, and SwiftUI introduced a new API for MapKit integration. This week, we will learn how to use the new full-featured APIs available in the latest iteration of SwiftUI to integrate with MapKit.
Animations were the most powerful feature of SwiftUI from day one. You can quickly build fluid animations in SwiftUI. The only downside was how we control animations whenever we need to run multi-step animation or scope the animation to a particular part of the view hierarchy.
During WWDC 23, SwiftUI introduced a new view modifier called visualEffect. This modifier allows us to attach a set of animatable visual effects by accessing layout information of the particular view. This week, we will learn how to use the new visualEffect view modifier in SwiftUI.
SwiftUI introduces the new ContentUnavailableView type, allowing us to display empty, error states or any other state where content is unavailable in our apps. This week, we will learn how to use the ContentUnavailableView to guide users through empty states of your app.
Xcode Preview Canvas is a crucial part of my development experience. Previews have significant changes this year by introducing the new #Preview macro. This week, we will learn about using the new #Preview macro and the benefits of this approach.