HandySwiftUI New Types: Essential Views and Types for SwiftUI Development
From platform-specific values without #if checks to sophisticated selection controls and async state management — discover the essential SwiftUI types that helped ship apps faster. These battle-tested views and types fill common gaps in SwiftUI development.
6 min readOct 30, 2024
After 4 years of iterating on these APIs in my own apps, I’m happy to share the first tagged release of HandySwiftUI. This package contains various utilities and convenience APIs that were essential in helping me ship 10 apps in the past year alone. It provides conveniences for SwiftUI development similar to how my HandySwift package does for Foundation.
In this article, I’ll share a selection of the new types I’ve found most valuable in my daily development work across apps like TranslateKit, FreemiumKit, and CrossCraft. While HandySwiftUI contains many more utilities, these particular types have proven their worth time and time again in real-world applications and could be helpful for your SwiftUI projects as well.
