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Every article on SwiftUI published on this blog, newest first: 5 in total, written by Ramón Chancay.

5 articles on SwiftUI

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Mobile10 Sep 202615 min read

UI, theming and animations in SwiftUI without NativeWind or Reanimated

How to do theming, animations and accessibility in SwiftUI coming from NativeWind and Reanimated: design tokens in the Asset Catalog, Dynamic Type as the default, SF Symbols, withAnimation, matchedGeometryEffect, PhaseAnimator, native gestures and Liquid Glass as a day-one API.

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Mobile5 Sep 202614 min read

SwiftUI navigation without file-based routing: NavigationStack, a Route enum and deep links

How to move mentally from Expo Router to SwiftUI: NavigationStack with a Route enum, the Coordinator pattern, deep links and Universal Links, and what swift-navigation adds when sheets and alerts become state.

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Mobile4 Sep 202616 min read

State and architecture in SwiftUI: from Zustand and Redux to @Observable and TCA

How to manage state in SwiftUI coming from Zustand and Redux: MVVM with @Observable as the default, when TCA justifies its learning curve, dependency injection with swift-dependencies or Factory, and why to modularize into packages from day one.

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Mobile3 Sep 202616 min read

SwiftUI is not React, even if it looks like it: body, identity, modifiers and layout

SwiftUI explained for people coming from React: what body is compared to render, why a view's identity matters, how modifier order changes the result, the layout system without flexbox and the map from hooks to property wrappers.

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Mobile1 Sep 202617 min read

Why a senior React Native developer should learn native in 2026

When native iOS beats React Native (widgets, day-one APIs, on-device ML), when it loses (two platforms, OTA, team) and why learning Swift adds to your toolkit instead of replacing it.