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More fun with custom layouts in SwiftUI

Building Widgets for visionOS Let’s recap what we’ve learned about Widgets and answer some questions from the community.

Weekend Reading for you: Building Widgets for #visionOS.

Topics include: Widget size, mounting style, textures, level of detail, rendering modes, configuration, interaction, animations, updating widgets, and more. We also answered some questions from the community.

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Building Widgets for visionOS Let’s recap what we’ve learned about Widgets and answer some questions from the community.

Weekend Reading for you: Building Widgets for #visionOS.

Topics include: Widget size, mounting style, textures, level of detail, rendering modes, configuration, interaction, animations, updating widgets, and more. We also answered some questions from the community.

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RealityKit experiment #74
(gist in the replies)

- LowLevelMesh with disconnected geometry
- Marching Cubes + SDF for vertex positions
- Vertex normals from SDF gradient
- Polynomial smooth-min to blend the shapes

Fridays are kinda great for me. I get the whole day to focus on Step Into Vision.

🧠 Review what I've learned
📢 Write a newsletter to share all the latest stuff
🗓️ Plan some examples and articles for the next week
🚀 Host a community event with the best visionOS developers

Snapp Mobile iOS Newsletter 52 Issue 52 • August 7, 2025

📢 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 #𝟓𝟐 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭!

This week's packed with insights:
❓ 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯<𝘛>
🎤 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩-𝘵𝘰-𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘜𝘐
🔒 𝘔𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘹 & 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
✉️ 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘴
🌍 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴
🔭 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘚𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
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⚠️ 𝘛𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦

Step Into Newsletter – August 8, 2025 More on widgets, debugging view frames, and website updates.

Step Into Newsletter for August 8, 2025

More on widgets, debugging view frames, and some website updates.

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Step Into Vision on YouTube Launching in the second half of 2025.

We're launching a YouTube Channel for Step Into Vision soon-ish. Can we get to 100 subscribers before launch?

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Understanding spatial layout in visionOS 26 Learn how to customize the alignment and spatial arrangement of UI elements within the environment using the new APIs introduced in visionOS 26.

👓 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑂𝑆 26 by @matteoaltobello.bsky.social

This article explains the fundamentals of spatial layout in visionOS, covering how to arrange and position 3D content using SwiftUI.

#visionOS #SwiftUI #Layout

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When opening a new window on visionOS we can use defaultWindowPlacement to place it relative to an existing window. We can also use a special utility placement that is relative to the user.

Learn about defaultWindowPlacement
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A few details on supporting rendering mode in visionOS widgets

#visionOS #SwiftUI #WidgetKit

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So you want to build Mountain-Scale AR for current hardware? Maybe like Snap's Spectacles devkit does it now? For vision pro you can do this by reading the headset position(odometry) and a iPhone gps position.

visionOS26Beta4toBeta5.md GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

ℹ️ visionOS 26 Beta 4 to Beta 5 Changelog made with AI:
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Lab 074 – Mocking up a clock using Radial Layout Using SwiftUI views, modifiers, and a layout to create a simple clock.

Thanks! We have the code for it here if you want to do something with it stepinto.vision/labs/lab-074...

Our apps can trigger widgets to update by asking WidgetCenter to reload timelines.

#visionOS #SwiftUI #WidgetKit #AppleVisionPro

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We can specify an array of times when a widget will update. It works, but may not be suitable for precise updates.

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If you haven't watched Meet SwiftUI spatial layout (WWDC 2025) then you may have missed debugBorder3D. They shared a view extension that is incredibly useful when debugging and visualizing SwiftUI layouts, particularly when working with spatial layouts.

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Step Into Newsletter – August 1, 2025 Widgets, clocks, and popovers on gravestones.

Step Into Newsletter for August 1, 2025: Widgets, clocks, and popovers on gravestones.

We need your help spreading the word about our new social media presence and the upcoming YouTube channel. The post for how yo can help!

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Project Graveyard DEVLOG 003

Working on a new toolbar, changing app mode, and app settings.

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Just got a new app icon for Porta Nubi and I am so happy with how it turned out! 🙌 ☁️✨🟧🟦

Mocking up a clock in SwiftUI using the Radial Layout that Apple provided in the Canyon Crosser sample from WWDC 2025. The rest is just text and shapes.

#SwiftUI #visionOS

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About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

Step Into Office Hours is a weekly community hangout for visionOS Developers

When: Every Friday at 2:00 PM (Eastern US)

#visionOS #AppleVisionPro #SwiftUI #RealityKit #ARKit

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A simple widget interaction example for visionOS. We'll use a count to update a radial layout.

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Widgets – Adding content and options for configuration Layout some content and add parameters.

visionOS Widgets: Adding content and options for configuration

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Another progress pic of Porta Nubi.

Getting things done, step by step.

Widgets – Getting started with visionOS Widgets Four key concepts that make widgets so compelling on visionOS.

Getting started with visionOS Widgets with 4 key concepts.

✅ Sizes
✅ Mounting styles
✅ Texture
✅ Level of Detail

This is the first post in a series covering widgets. More to come all this week. #visionOS #SwiftUI #AppleVisionPro

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Today we published the 300th post on Step Into Vision 🎉

Here are a few favorite examples and labs. Many more to come!

#AppleVisionPro #visionOS #SwiftUI #RealityKit #ARKit

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