The introduction of SwiftUI by tech giant, Apple, is surely an innovative addition to this rather vastly expansive world of technologies which are heavily-dominated by coding and UI designing for evincing an innovative user experience.
SwiftUI framework, which Apple has declared “a new paradigm for UI development”, encompasses declarative Swift syntax and Xcode-integrated design tools. It leverages its latest version of the MacOS and iOS programming language (known as Swift 5 programing language) to facilitate coding easy to write and understand or synchronize code and design perfectly. Overwhelming responses from tech geeks to this newest framework of Apple can be seen as fulfillment of their long-coveted desire to use the intuitive programing language of Swift for MacOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS and beyond.
SwiftUI streamlines ways involved in creating interfaces across all Apple platforms, synchronizes coding and designing with Xcode design tools and offers functional support to dynamic type, localization, and accessibility. It was built on none but the Swift language itself and was made available in the Xcode 11 beta IDE. As we know, the introduction of Swift necessitated substitution of Objective-C to simplify UI customization, but the priority of Apple leaned more on the side of macOS and iOS APIs, which later fell short on intuitiveness.
The introduction of SwiftUI somehow is an extension of Apple’s initiative to simplify building of compelling UI elements for developers who long-nourished the desire to integrate a simple yet impressive declarative syntax to build powerful UI elements without having to write a bevy of hefty codes. SwiftUI framework can be said as a synonymous to simplification of UI designing process.
SwiftUI – Key Highlights
- It is an innovative interface toolkit used to design apps in a declarative way. In other words, it follows your command regarding how you want your UI to look and work.
- It allows developers build interfaces across all Apple platforms.
- It allows synchronisati0n of coding and designing in coordination with Xcode design tools.
- Swift language is what SwiftUI framework was built with.
- Helps developers build one or many previews to collect sample data and make necessary alternations to capabilities like fonts, Dark Mode, and localization for users.
- It only supports iOS 13.
Other Facets of SwiftUI Framework
SwiftUI consists of a stack of new tools & APIs in order to build interactive user-interfaces. It is compiled with an open-source framework and determines new qualifying criteria for efficient iPhone app development for a variety of iOS-operated devices. The unassuming declarative syntax of SwiftUI permits simplifications by which writing and understanding mountains of codes for UI development is expedited.
The role of SwiftUI is to de-clutter technical complexity involved in building engaging interfaces for Apple developers because of its tools and APIs. Technical capabilities that SwiftUI incorporate, such as dynamic, localization and accessibility make it extremely better than other frameworks available in technology world these days.
What sets in distinction of this framework is that SwiftUI assists developers with the supply of tools and APIs which facilitate creating iPhone app solutions for Apple platforms like Mac, TV, and watch. The introduction of SwiftUI is also an ending era of Apple’s erstwhile NSOjbect which was once a part of all products of Apple. It is a multi-paradigm and compiled programing language that is also seen as a future replacement of Apple’s NeXT APIs.
Unique Perks by SwiftUI For Mobile App Developers
Simplified development
The one unique attribute for which SwiftUI is to be complimented is its ability to offer ease of development of apps for Apple devices. This multi-paradigm and compiled programing language has compiled the kind of cutting-edge technology used by Apple to not to deviate from existing trends of programing as prevalent in this expansive world of technologies.
The tech giant articulated about the significance of SwiftUI framework for developers, that it enables them to produce innovative apps by eliminating the futile needs for numerous codes when using SwiftUI. With dependence of using innumerable codes to create UIs for Apple devices being over, developers can therefore save a great deal of time in building user interfaces for Apple devices using just a single set of tools and APIs.
The declarative syntax of SwiftUI programmatically commands UI what it should do, and eliminates developer’s efforts in using animations in a product.
Rich Native Apps
There has been an undeniable reliance for mobile app developers over React Native when it comes to creating an application. The increasing popularity of React Native apps was largely attributed to JavaScript by which these apps were developed and later compiled on both the devices of android and iOS.
Though it assisted developers a great deal, yet the perceptible absence of performance power of these cross-platform apps and their compulsory use of heavy coding from third-party libraries had necessitated the advent of a certain framework to build native apps with ease. SwiftUI epitomizes everything a developer may need to create engaging UI experience at a lighting fast speed.
Xcode 11
Xcode 11 is an inbuilt feature of UI design tool that can be used by app designers to assemble UI with SwiftUI in a faster turnaround time. Using this feature also precludes the necessity of applying hefty codes. This is because the automated modifications in the Swift language code are showcased in the Visual Design tools which then help iPhone app developers assemble, test, and refine their code using real-time previews of the apps in order to match the needs of the product. Because of the way it handles graphical design and writing code is emerged to be its potentiality for making the UI development project quit productive.
Simplifying app development procedure
SwiftUI, with its theme of simplicity and ‘Drag and Drop’ feature evinces ease of convenience during the whole app development procedure. It allows developers to put an (already chosen) element on board for customization and re-arrangement to evaluate how it performs. The code editors can even use the featured visual editor options and can ensure monitoring of new modifiers for all controls during coding.
Because of this salient feature, SwiftUI outwits other programing languages like Python and Objective-C.
Dynamic Swap
The recently introduced SwiftUI has also cleared the way for Swift compiler and runtime to be embedded with Xcode 11. As a result, iOS developers can find it easy to build and run applications in development phase in real-time. To say otherwise, there will be no use for the canvas to portray the nearly-exact reflection of UI design, except the fact that it will be portrayed in real time the live version of what apps developers are working on. Another catch here is Xcode will use dynamic replacement factor to facilitate swap of the edited code in the live version of the application.
Previews
Another distinctive feature of SwiftUI framework is that it allows apps developers to create multiple previews of their app designs. This in turn can help them review the designs on several devices in different orientations. Because of this “preview” feature the product in development phase can be experimented in terms of layout, color and font.
Wrapping it up
There is no need to tax your brain in figuring out the efficiency or productivity of SwiftUI by which it does the job of app development for Apple devices. Supported by features like automatic functionalities, such as dark mode, internationalization, language support, and accessibility can only underscore the prowess of SwiftUI in terms of facilitating development in a faster turnaround time. For experts, SwiftUI brings forth radical change in app development process.
In addition, SwiftUI framework, with its host of features and native functionalities, is quite an “empowered” medium for bringing revolution to the way the process for app development for Apple devices is undertaken. It also leads to conclusion that the loaded features of SwiftUI portray an extensive scale of viability for app industries in quest for compelling user-experiences.
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The author of the above blog posts works as a technical lead at MobileCoderz Technologies. He shares deep knowledge and interests in the latest technologies & tools for mobile app development. He loves sharing interesting posts to inform readers about the latest updates.
