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Preview a first look at the Hiya AI app, built with SwiftUI, as this lecture introduces app preview techniques within the iOS development masterclass 2026.
Store enumerations with Swift data and gather data via a SwiftUI form in a sheet. Retrieve data with a custom list, display it, validate entries, and save favorite movies.
Design a creative card interface for a hiking app using SwiftUI, master layout containers, and build a settings screen with an app icon change feature.
Explore how to use SwiftUI to craft an onboarding screen with a custom button and a complex parallax effect that adds depth to your iOS app.
Develop a reusable pinch and zoom feature in swiftui by implementing long press, double tap, drag, and magnification gestures, and enhance visuals with swiftui materials, sf symbols, and background blur.
Build a fruits encyclopedia using SwiftUI in Xcode, covering project setup, asset integration, onboarding, a fruit list with a detail view, app lifecycle, storage, and a modern settings screen.
Explore Africa with iOS 14 features, SwiftUI, and MapKit to build apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac via Mac Catalyst, decode Json data, and create grid layouts with animated annotations.
Utilize Swift UI to declare modern, dynamic interfaces across Apple platforms and rapidly prototype an e-commerce app called Touchdown, delivering an outstanding iOS 14 application to your device.
Develop a daily personal task management app using SwiftUI and Core Data with the new Xcode template. Create emotional UI and widgets for iPhone and iPad to boost engagement.
Build a slot machine game for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS with SwiftUI, port via Mac Catalyst, save data with user defaults, and add sound effects, haptic feedback, and reusable components.
Develop a data app with SwiftUI and Core Data to save todos locally, add priorities, delete items, and build a home view with color themes and external links.
Build an iOS and iPadOS swiping app with honeymoon destination cards using SwiftUI, mastering data binding, computed properties, and custom transitions for engaging gesture-driven interactions.
There are only two technical requirements for this SwiftUI Masterclass course:
macOS from Apple (free - available in the App Store)
Xcode from Apple (free - available in the App Store)
Personal Prerequisites:
Willing to create awesome SwiftUI apps by following the instructor step by step
You do not need any other prior programming experience or knowledge
Click on the Resources button below to download the Xcode guide in PDF format.
Preview the Hiya AI app and explore iOS development with SwiftUI, SwiftData, and AI features.
Create a simple SwiftUI app that uses on-device ai with foundation models to respond to a predefined prompt, verify model availability, and send asynchronous prompts while designing a clean UI.
Learn to set up an AI project in Xcode by creating a new iOS app with SwiftUI, configuring assets and launch screen, and organizing resources and icons.
Build a SwiftUI interface with a bottom button and spacers, integrating an AI language model session to send prompts and receive async responses.
Improve ai-driven user experience by guiding users to tap the welcome button to start an ai action and by showing a progress view during response generation.
Conclude the course by presenting a user-friendly iOS app that interacts with on-device AI, sends creative prompts, displays responses, and explains when AI is unavailable.
This SwiftUI Reference Guide is featuring all major updates and improvements of Apple’s native user interface framework. It covers not only the basics but more advanced topics as well such as asynchronous task, pull to refresh, search bar, custom swipe action buttons, remote image from an URL, visual effect blur, dismissing the keyboard, markdown text, new alerts & action sheets API, etc.
“The best way to build an app is with Swift and SwiftUI.” – Apple, WWDC
Introducing the SwiftUI framework. In this reference guide, we will learn everything about the latest improvements and features of Apple’s native user interface framework.
But before we dive into the details, let's go through the tools you need to build an app, so can follow along with me.
Since you have Xcode installed on your computer, therefore now it's time to launch it and create a new project by choosing the first option on the Welcome screen, as I show you.
By doing that, Xcode will start the project setup process, which requires some additional information about the app we want to create.
First, we will create a new iPhone app using the App template under the iOS category in the new window.
Introducing the SwiftUI framework
In this reference guide, we will learn everything about the latest improvements and features of Apple’s native user interface framework.
Apple Developer
But before we dive into the details, I would like to highlight the major requirements so you can follow along with me. Also, You can get more information about app development and all the necessary tools at the following official website:
https://developer.apple.com
Xcode
First and foremost, you will need the Xcode application installed on your computer. To get the latest version of Xcode, you will need to open the App Store on your computer and download it using your personal or business Apple account.
It’s worth mentioning that the Xcode editor is free, which is fantastic! Also, a yearly membership in the Apple Developer Program is not required to get started developing applications. However, if you want to publish your apps to the App Store, then it is highly recommended.
Please notice that since the file size of Xcode is enormous, therefore it will take some time when the download is done. While Xcode is downloading, you can continue watching the rest of this video.
The SwiftUI Link is a control for navigating to a URL. We can create a link by providing a destination URL and a title.
The title tells the user the purpose of the link. This can be a string, a button, or a custom view that acts as a label.
The following example creates a link to the apple.com website and it displays the title string as a link-styled view.
When a user taps or clicks a Link, the default behavior depends on the contents of the URL and its associated application.
Links were designed for the web, but we can add them to our applications and let the system decide where to open the linked document.
For example, a SwiftUI Link can trigger to call a phone number, open the default email client, or other apps that Apple provides schemes for.
Customizations.
As with other views, we can style links using standard view modifiers depending on the view type of the link’s label. For example, a text label could be modified with a font or foreground color modifier to customize the appearance.
Alternatively, we can add the same styling options that we also use on buttons.
Custom Link View.
Also, there is another initializer we can use to create a custom button-like view for the Link.
To use this new link initializer, we need to put the destination parameter first, and then we can create and customize any view that users can tap on to navigate to a URL.
In this example, we created a well noticeable stylized view with a system symbol and a text view wrapped into a horizontal view container.
Icon Composer enables you to craft beautiful icons using Liquid Glass from a single design, compatible with iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
How to add color gradients to text in SwiftUI?
Using the Foreground Style modifier, we can easily add any gradient color to text in SwiftUI.
Let's look at how it works with some examples.
In this SwiftUI tutorial, we will learn how to load and display an image asynchronously from the Internet. Note that the SwiftUI AsyncImage view uses the shared URLSession instance to load an image from a specified URL and then display it on the screen. Until the remote image loads, the view displays either a standard or a custom-built placeholder.
To gain more control over the loading process, we can use the initializer, which takes a content closure that receives an Async Image Phase to indicate the state of the loading operation.
By doing that, we can control what to display on the screen. In a nutshell, we can return a view that's appropriate for the current phase, such as success, failure, or empty phase.
Alright! Without further ado, let's create a new project in Xcode and start coding along with me.
Bind SwiftData to a SwiftUI app with a model container and model context, query and display wishes, and use an overlay for empty data and in-memory previews.
Learn to save Swift data objects by adding a top toolbar plus button that opens an alert with a text field, then insert into the model context with autosave.
Preview the SwiftUI interface by creating sample data and a mock data preview, then load items into an in-memory model container to test UI with completed item styling.
Learn to delete and update Swift Data using custom swipe actions on a grocery list, including a toolbar button, completion status toggling, and status-based tinting for enhanced user experience.
Integrate TipKit to showcase contextual tips in a grocery list app. Use Typekit to define tips, a tip view, and popover or inline displays.
Set up a new iOS SwiftUI project in Xcode, configure Swift Data to store pet names and photos with external storage, and build a reusable content unavailable view.
Develop a standalone SwiftUI view to create or edit a pet with SwiftData, featuring a form, name field, photo picker, and bindings to a pet data object.
Add a pet and save its data by navigating to the editing pet view, selecting an image with the photo picker, and returning to the grid after tapping save.
Master deleting data in a data-driven SwiftUI app by adding a trash button on each grid item, toggling editing state, and saving or deleting pets with Swift data.
SWIFTUI COURSE UPDATES
A major course update is planned following WWDC26. The new content will focus on modern iOS development with SwiftUI, SwiftData, app architecture, Apple’s latest AI and Apple Intelligence technologies, testing, and production-ready development practices. The goal is to keep the course aligned with the current Apple ecosystem and the way real-world iOS apps are built today.
APPLE INTELLIGENCE and AGENTIC CODING
Agentic coding in Xcode refers to using AI agents that don’t just autocomplete code, but reason, plan, refactor, debug, and execute multi-step development tasks inside your project. With Apple’s growing investment in on-device intelligence and development tooling, this represents a shift from “code assistant” to “engineering collaborator.”
Faster Feature Development
Deep Swift & Apple Framework Awareness
Architectural Guidance (Not Just Syntax)
Automated Debugging & Fixing
Better Prompt-to-Prototype Workflow
Contextual Awareness Across Files
Continuous Refactoring Without Fear
Great for Solo Developers & Small Teams
Strategic Advantage in the AI Era
Additionally, we’ll explore the latest features and enhancements introduced in iOS26, macOS26, and watchOS26, ensuring that you are up-to-date with the most current tools and frameworks available for app development.
Stay tuned for more information on these updates, and get ready for an engaging learning experience!
– Robert
LEARNING SECTIONS
SWIFTUI REFERENCE GUIDE
SWIFTUI RECIPES & HOW-TOS
SWIFTDATA – Store and load data on Apple Devices
APPLE INTELLIGENCE – On-Device AI and ChatGPT
APPLE DESIGN SYSTEM – Liquid Glass
WHY THIS COURSE?
Kickstart 2026 by mastering Apple app development with our best-selling SwiftUI & SwiftData Masterclass with ChatGPT AI course, which includes 37+ hours of high-quality video content. More than 48,400+ students cannot be wrong.
No1 – As you may know, Apple sent a clear message at the last WWDC developer conference: “The best way to build an app is with Swift and SwiftUI.”
That being said, I will focus on adding more fresh content covering many important topics, such as the following new features:
iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26 platforms
Agentic coding with free OpenAI account in Xcode,
Xcode 26 with Apple Intelligence,
SF Symbols 7,
Liquid Glass Design,
Icon Composer,
Apple Intelligence,
Vibe coding with ChatGPT AI agent,
SwiftData,
On-device AI with Foundation Models,
TipKit,
Photos Picker,
Swift Charts,
Resizable Bottom Sheet,
New NavigationSplitView, NavigationStack,
Table for iPadOS,
MultiDatePicker,
Expandable Text Field,
ViewThatFits,
Improved Grid API,
Layout Protocol,
and so on.
No2 – I have already started uploading new content about what is new in the SwiftUI framework.
Not only that, but the entire course, including ALL projects, will be updated to the latest Apple platforms, including iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS, and visionOS 26. Older projects will also get a refreshed and unified Liquid Glass design with enhanced features like on-device AI integration, modern UI design, and so on.
No3 – Every project is compatible with the latest iOS 2026, so if you run the finished project on the latest operating system, then Xcode will compile it.
I would also highlight that Apple did not deprecate previous SwiftUI versions. That said, the latest iteration of SwiftUI is nothing more than some new features and exciting additions to the base of all SwiftUI releases.
No4 – We are building applications from scratch with resources made by professionals.
Creating the Bestseller SwiftUI Course with high-quality production value takes a lot of time.
This SwiftUI course is already over 38 hours long and will continue to expand, including exciting topics such as voice coding with ChatGPT AI by the end of this year.
No5 – You will experience the "LEARNING BY DOING" teaching method during the course-taking.
Having said that, this is a project-based course, with 80% practical activities and only 20% theory.
I am aware of no other instructor in this category who offers more free previews than I do, so you can educate yourself about how things are done in this course.
I hope this information helps those who are new to app development.
PRACTICAL PROJECTS
HIYA – Apple AI project with iOS26 and Foundation Models framework
PIXIE – Generate images with Apple AI
HIKE – SwiftUI with Alternate App Icons
WISHLIST – iOS app with SwiftData
GROCERY LIST – iOS app with SwiftData
PAWS – iOS app with SwiftData
WATCHLIST – iOS app with SwiftData
RESTART – iPhone app design
PINCH – iPhone app development
FRUITS – iOS app with SwiftUI and Xcode
AFRICA – iOS, iPadOS, and macOS desktop app
TOUCHDOWN – iOS E-commerce app
DEVOTE – Core Data with SwiftUI integration
NOTES – watchOS with SwiftUI
DEVELOPERS – iOS and iPadOS app
AVOCADO RECIPES – iOS and iPadOS app
SLOT MACHINE – iPhone, iPad, Mac Game
TODO – Core Data, App Themes, and Alternate App Icons
HONEYMOON – iOS and iPadOS app
"Tell me, and I forget.
Show me, and I remember.
Let me do it, and I understand."
– Confucius
Why should you take this best-selling SwiftUI course that features Xcode's built-in AI coding assistant?
Visually learn SwiftUI, SwiftData, and build top-notch iOS and iPadOS mobile apps, Apple Watch apps, and even macOS desktop applications. This complete iOS application development course is designed to teach you how to become an advanced multiplatform app developer using Apple's native user interface framework: SwiftUI.
This class teaches programming concepts through a project-based approach. You will improve your app design and development skills while creating many hands-on applications.
What kind of advanced topics will be covered?
Swift Programming Language,
SwiftUI framework foundation,
Create iPhone apps by chatting with AI,
Xcode AI pair programming with ChatGPT,
Swift Charts,
Swift Concurrency,
SwiftUI Async/Await feature,
SwiftData persistent framework,
Core Data with SwiftUI,
MVVM Architecture - Design Pattern,
External REST API integration,
Combine Framework,
SwiftUI Animation,
Advanced Core Data with Apple's CloudKit integration,
App Clips,
WidgetKit framework,
SpriteKit with SwiftUI,
Apple Intelligence,
Version control with Git,
Native macOS app development,
watchOS for Apple Watches,
App design, UI design, UX design,
HealthKit,
MapKit,
PencilKit,
Foundation Models,
Push Notification,
SwiftUI WebView,
Face ID and Touch ID,
App distributions to the App Store,
and so on.
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This up-to-date SwiftUI course contains step-by-step instructions to teach you how to program in Swift to build several fully-fledged iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS applications.
What’s in it for you?
As a student in this masterclass, you're going to create dozens of eye-catching apps with the latest and greatest technologies that Apple has recently released, such as:
An Xcode code assistant powered by ChatGPT (or another large language model like Claude) can be really useful. Here’s what it brings to the table — and some caveats:
What ChatGPT in Xcode is good for
In-IDE code generation and modification
You can ask the assistant to scaffold new Swift/SwiftUI code, generate data-model structs from JSON, propose UI layouts, or refactor existing code — all without leaving Xcode.
Context-aware suggestions
Xcode's AI assistant can see your open files, or even your whole project context, which helps it make relevant suggestions or edits.
On-the-fly explanations and documentation by Apple Intelligence
You can ask “what does this function do?”, “Why is this error happening?”, or “how can I better structure this ViewModel?”, and get natural language explanations, documentation stubs, or rewrite suggestions.
Automated fixes and cleanups
The built-in ChatGPT assistant can help with migrating deprecated APIs, fixing compiler or warning errors, simplifying overly complex code, or improving concurrency usage.
Faster iteration, less context switching
Because you don’t have to alt-tab to a browser or separate chat app, you can keep your flow going. Asking questions, tweaking code, and trying again—all in line.
Learning/mentorship aid
Especially if you’re less familiar with a framework or newer Swift features, the assistant can act like a tutor: explain idioms, suggest better patterns, or point out subtle bugs or inefficiencies.
Flexible model providers
In Xcode 26, Apple lets you choose from various models (ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, or even local on-device models). You can switch based on speed, privacy, cost or accuracy.
If you want to get a job as an iOS or macOS developer, this masterclass is perfect for building up your professional portfolio to show off at your next interview. They will be interested in your work, after all.
On the other hand, if you want to build your own apps for your startup business, I've included full exercises on user interface design and app animation in addition to the coding tutorials.
You should know that this course assumes absolutely no programming experience. So, if you're a complete beginner, I'll be there to guide you through this program.
Finally, if you're an experienced developer, I'm sure that you will find plenty of advanced Swift programming best practices using the Xcode editor.
That being said, by the end of the course, you'll know how to develop, design, and publish your next app in the Apple App Store.
So what are you waiting for? Enroll in the SwiftUI Masterclass with AI Programming today!