Apple researchers built UICoder through a feedback loop that generated, filtered, and retrained SwiftUI code, transforming scarce data into nearly one million working samples.

A group of Apple researchers took a very interesting approach to get an AI to teach itself how to build good interfaces in SwiftUI.

It can even create iPhone apps using SwiftUI. GPT-4 For those unfamiliar, GPT or Generative Pre-training Transformer is the technology behind the popular ChatGPT.

In 2022, the iOS team at Airbnb decided SwiftUI was sufficiently mature to be adopted for their official app. This required a careful transition, explains Airbnb staff engineer Bryn Bodayle.