Posts tagged with: glassEffect

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All Development AI Apple Vibe Coding SwiftUI Announcements

Orange and teal ink diffusing through water, translucent layers blending and morphing into each other — the visual metaphor for layering and morphing Liquid Glass effects.

Custom Liquid Glass Components: When to Leave the Defaults (and the Three Mistakes That Kill Your Frame Rate)

glassEffect(.regular, in:) with a custom shape, two glass blobs that morph into each other with glassEffectID, and the three things that turn buttery Liquid Glass into a stutter machine. Built on a real iPhone 17 Pro simulator, with the TDD seam that keeps the decision testable even though the render isn't.

June 4, 2026 12 min read

$Close-up of textured, refractive glass with warm amber-to-cream tones — the real-world material Apple's Liquid Glass design language imitates on screen.$

Swift SwiftUI

Liquid Glass for an App You Already Shipped: What You Get From a Recompile vs. Five Lines of Tuning

I rebuilt a real SwiftUI app against the iOS 26 SDK and took two screenshots of the exact same screen — one with zero code changes, one with five lines of glassEffect. Here's the honest split between what the recompile hands you for free and what's worth your custom-tuning time, plus the TDD seam that makes a visual feature testable.

June 3, 2026 10 min read