Lets Get Started With SwiftUI

A New Tool to Explore in App Development

Nickson Joram
3 min readNov 14, 2023

SwiftUI is a modern and declarative user interface framework developed by Apple for building applications across all of its platforms, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. It was introduced with the release of Swift 5.1 and Xcode 11, providing a more intuitive and efficient way to design and implement user interfaces compared to its predecessor, UIKit.

Declarative Syntax

One of the key features of SwiftUI is its declarative syntax. Instead of relying on imperative code that describes how the user interface should change over time, SwiftUI allows developers to declare the desired state of the interface, and the framework automatically manages the updates.

Here’s a simple example of a SwiftUI view declaration:

import SwiftUI /*This line imports the SwiftUI framework, allowing you to 
use its classes, structs, and functions in your Swift code.*/

struct ContentView: View { /*Here, a new Swift struct named ContentView is
declared. This struct conforms to the View protocol, which is a fundamental
protocol in SwiftUI used for creating user interface elements.*/

var body: some View { /*The body property is a computed property that
must return a view. The some View syntax indicates that the type of view…

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