SwiftUI: Love at First Swipe or Swipe Left?
summary
Built a live-streaming iOS app using SwiftUI inside a few months on iOS 14, combining UIKit navigation with SwiftUI views, and it ships to half a million users with 99.4% crash-free installs and a 4.7 rating from 13,000 reviews. SwiftUI speeds UI work with declarative syntax, previews, automatic layout and cross‑platform sharing, but causes tricky update behavior (@Published, StateObject/ObservedObject, EnvironmentObject), lacks a native collection‑view equivalent, and forces iOS 13/14 compatibility workarounds.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:08SwiftUI
- 4:30Declarative Syntax
- 5:58Automatic Layout
- 7:22Faster Development
- 8:41Live Preview is a Real Timesaver
- 9:40No Storyboard
- 10:31Shareable UI
- 11:20Easy to Learn
- 12:24Why Swipe Left Then?
- 13:38Hard to Build Complex UIs
- 14:18SwiftUI is Growing Old
- 15:03What’s New in iOS 15 and 16
- 16:00So What?
- 17:20Incomplete Feature Set
- 19:36Tricky Behaviour
- 23:51Limited Backward Compatibility
- 24:55SwiftUI: Can you Trust it?
- 26:22Great RESOURCE
- 26:47Making SwiftUI Work for you?
