TipKit for the Real World

On a Monday morning, I thought I’d take a crack at implementing tips in one of my apps. There were some gestures and other features that customers weren’t finding and explaining those things with tips would be helpful. I expected the task to take about a day. It ended up taking a week. Why so long? Well, the first problem is when you watch the introduction video from WWDC ’23 you’ll see outdated code throughout the presentation. TipsCenter doesn’t exist. Configuration is completely different. And there is no mention of UIKit. Then, when you look at the sample code, it’s all SwiftUI. At least the sample compiles and runs because it uses a completely different syntax than what was shown at WWDC. But the fact remained: I had UIKit views where I wanted to display tips. And there wasn’t any information on how to accomplish that. Did Apple really release a framework that didn’t work on the code we’ve been crafting for the past 20 years? Tips are something you want to add to existing code.…