Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit

A Podkey summary of Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit, from WWDC 2026. A lot of this week’s story is about how Apple keeps making the line between AppKit, UIKit, and SwiftUI less dramatic than people assume. The big theme is incremental adoption: automatic observation, SwiftUI views and scenes dropped into old apps, even menus and gesture recognizers crossing the boundary cleanly. And maybe the clearest example is a custom circular color picker built with Canvas, where new SwiftUI pieces can still reuse older drawing code and the same shared model. Automatic UI updates with @Observable Back-deploying observation Dropping SwiftUI into existing AppKit Canvas and the circular color picker Gestures, menus, and other bridge pieces SwiftUI scenes in old-school apps What Apple is signaling This podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm