New Swift Playgrounds 4.1 lets you make Mac apps with SwiftUI

Apple on Tuesday introduced big updates to Swift Playgrounds, its app designed to educate programming newcomers how to produce application employing Apple’s Swift programming language.

Swift Playgrounds 4.1 is readily available for cost-free for the iPad and Mac. Edition 4.1 now enables consumers to make macOS applications with SwiftUI, but the users should be functioning Swift Playgrounds on a Mac operating macOS Monterey 12.4, which was launched on Monday. Listed here are the launch notes with details on the new features. 

• Create Mac applications with SwiftUI (calls for macOS 12.4 or afterwards)

• Guided walkthroughs educate SwiftUI app making fundamentals

• App Preview reveals reside updates as you make changes to your application

• Apps designed with Swift Playgrounds run and set up to the Apps folder

• Application Shop Connect integration lets you upload your concluded application to the App Retail outlet (necessitates Apple Developer Application account)

• Intelligent, inline code recommendations assistance you compose code promptly and accurately

• Challenge-wide lookup finds final results throughout various documents

• Snippets Library provides hundreds of SwiftUI controls, symbols, and colors

• Swift Bundle guidance lets you include publicly offered code to enrich your apps

• Application Projects make it effortless to transfer jobs to Xcode and back