swift-navigation skill

Overview

This skill bundles tools and documentation to make navigation in Swift apps more ergonomic and powerful across SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit. It collects patterns, controls, and examples to simplify common navigation tasks and improve precision in transitions and state handling. The docs are organized progressively so you can start with basics and advance to platform-specific techniques.

How this skill works

The skill inspects common navigation workflows and provides reusable components, animation helpers, and control primitives that integrate with SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit. It includes guidance on composing navigation stacks, customizing transitions, and previewing navigation behavior in Xcode. A DocC-based converter produced these materials so the content reads as structured, practical guides.

When to use it

• When you need consistent navigation patterns across SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit
• When default navigation APIs feel limited or hard to customize
• When you want cleaner declarative navigation state and transitions
• When preparing Xcode previews to validate navigation flows
• When migrating navigation code between SwiftUI and UIKit/AppKit

Best practices

• Start with the Introduction or Getting Started guide to learn core abstractions
• Use provided animation helpers to keep transitions smooth and consistent
• Favor composable controls to isolate navigation logic from view content
• Test navigation flows in Xcode previews before runtime to catch edge cases
• Follow platform-specific guidance when mixing SwiftUI with UIKit or AppKit

Example use cases

• Implementing a custom push/pop transition in a SwiftUI app using provided animation helpers
• Sharing a navigation state model between SwiftUI views and UIKit view controllers
• Creating Xcode previews that simulate complex navigation stacks for QA
• Replacing ad-hoc navigation code with composable control primitives for maintainability
• Adapting a macOS AppKit navigation pattern to a SwiftUI layout

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