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Learn how to build lists and sidebars in your app with UICollectionView. Replace table view appearance while taking advantage of the full flexibility of compositional layout. Explore modular layout options and find out how they can unlock more design options for your apps than ever before. Find out how to combine table view-like lists with custom compositional layouts inside of a single UICollectionView. Discover how to work with lists, create richer cells, and customize your layout to create a well-designed presentation of information within your app.

Diffable data sources dramatically simplify the work involved in managing and updating collection and table views to create dynamic and responsive experiences in your apps. Discover how you can use section snapshots to efficiently build lists and outline collection views for iOS and iPadOS and provide support for implementing the sidebar in an iPad app. We’ll also show you how to simplify cell reordering using UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource to help you streamline your code and build app interfaces more quickly.

Learn about new features of UICollectionView that make it easier to use and unlock powerful new functionality. We’ll show you how to use section snapshots with your diffable data source to create outlines that can expand and collapse, and introduce you to building lists with compositional layout to create UITableView-like interfaces with a collection view. And discover modern techniques for dequeuing cells and configuring their content and styling.

Come with us as we delve into unsafe pointer types in Swift. Discover the requirements for each type and how to use it correctly. We’ll discuss typed pointers, drop down to raw pointers, and finally circumvent pointer type safety entirely by binding memory.

Join us for an update on Swift. Discover the latest advancements in runtime performance, along with improvements to the developer experience that make your code faster to read, edit, and debug. Find out how to take advantage of new language features like multiple trailing closures. Learn about new libraries available in the SDK, and explore the growing number of APIs available as Swift Packages.

What exactly makes code “unsafe”? Join the Swift team as we take a look at the programming language’s safety precautions — and when you might need to reach for unsafe operations. We’ll take a look at APIs that can cause unexpected states if not used correctly, and how you can write code more specifically to avoid undefined behavior. Learn how to work with C APIs that use pointers and the steps to take when you want to use Swift’s unsafe pointer APIs.