SwiftUI Toolbar in iOS 26: ToolbarItem, Placement, and Customization Guide
Master the SwiftUI toolbar in iOS 26. ToolbarItem placements, keyboard bars, Liquid Glass styling, VoiceOver, and cross-platform behavior on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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SwiftUI PhaseAnimator in iOS 26: Multi-Step Animation Sequences Without State Machines
SwiftUI's PhaseAnimator walks a view through ordered animation phases from a single trigger, replacing @State flags and asyncAfter chains. Learn per-phase curves, trigger patterns, and how to combine it with CustomAnimation, plus real-world code for like buttons and toasts.
SwiftUI PencilKit in iOS 26: Apple Pencil, PKCanvasView, and Custom Drawing Tools
Embed a low-latency drawing canvas in SwiftUI using PencilKit in iOS 26. Wrap PKCanvasView, wire up PKToolPicker, persist PKDrawing to SwiftData, and handle Apple Pencil Pro squeeze and hover with production-ready Swift code.
SwiftUI ContentUnavailableView: The Complete Guide to Empty States, Errors, and No-Results Screens in iOS 26
A practical guide to ContentUnavailableView in SwiftUI: every initializer, the .searchable pairing, retry buttons, VoiceOver behaviour, iOS 26 Liquid Glass, and iOS 15/16 fallbacks.
SwiftUI PhotosPicker in iOS 26: Multi-Select, Video Filters, and File-Based Loading
How to use SwiftUI PhotosPicker in iOS 26 for multi-select, video filtering, and file-based loading. Covers race conditions, iCloud progress, and VoiceOver.
SwiftUI Zoom Navigation Transition: Hero Animations with matchedTransitionSource in iOS 26
Build hero zoom animations between a thumbnail and its detail screen using SwiftUI matchedTransitionSource and navigationTransition(.zoom) in iOS 26, with sheets, fullScreenCover, accessibility, and the common reasons it silently falls back to a slide.
SwiftUI TabView in iOS 26: Tab API, Sidebar Adaptation, and the Floating Tab Bar
How to build SwiftUI TabView in iOS 26 with the new Tab struct, TabSection sidebars, search role, and the floating tab bar. Migration patterns from the old selection-based API and the accessibility checks I run before every ship.
SwiftUI NavigationSplitView: The Complete Guide to Adaptive Multi-Column Navigation on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
NavigationSplitView is SwiftUI's adaptive sidebar container. Learn selection bindings, deep linking, iPhone collapse behaviour, and accessibility patterns for iOS 26.