Apple may be about to fix two of SwiftUI’s biggest blind spots

While in today’s edition of Power On, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned a quiet but meaningful upgrade coming to Apple’s SwiftUI framework, 9to5Mac has learned of a second welcome improvement for developers who have been eager but unable to go all-in on SwiftUI app development. For years, SwiftUI has been marketed as the future of Apple app development: a modern way to build user interfaces that works across all Apple platforms. And for the most part, it does the job. Until you need to do something incredibly advanced like… support bold or italic text input, or embed web views. Finally, a built-in rich text editor Rich text has been one of SwiftUI’s biggest blind spots. It has had display-side rich text for a while, but nothing for input. And since there’s no built-in component specifically for that, developers have had to jump through hoops, mixing their code with good old UIKit, using third-party libraries, or hacking together awkward workarounds that break SwiftUI’s clean, plat ... Read full article.