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Mobile App Development vocabulary · iOS, Android and Native Development

SwiftUI

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

nounCommon term

In mobile app development, SwiftUI means: Apple's declarative framework, introduced in 2019, for building user interfaces in Swift by describing what the screen should show for each state.

In Turkish: SwiftUI

How it is used

Often compared with UIKit, the older imperative framework, and many apps mix the two. Developers talk about views, modifiers, @State and Xcode previews. Job ads usually list 'SwiftUI and UIKit' together.

Example sentences

  1. New screens are written in SwiftUI, but the old ones still use UIKit.

  2. The SwiftUI preview lets the designer check every state without running the app.

Common collocations

  • SwiftUI view
  • SwiftUI and UIKit
  • SwiftUI preview
  • migrate to SwiftUI
  • SwiftThe programming language Apple introduced in 2014 for building apps on iOS and its other platforms; it has largely replaced the older Objective-C.
  • Jetpack ComposeGoogle's modern declarative toolkit for building Android user interfaces in Kotlin, using composable functions instead of XML layouts.
  • UIUser interface: everything on the screen that people see and touch to use an app, such as buttons, text fields, lists and menus.
  • iOSApple's operating system for the iPhone. Apps for it are built with Apple's own tools, mainly Xcode and the Swift programming language.
  • view controllerIn iOS UIKit, an object that manages one screen or part of a screen: it loads the views, responds to user actions and handles events such as the screen appearing.

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