SwiftUI is a declarative UI framework for building iOS apps using Swift. It uses views to represent UI elements, which are composed together declaratively without the use of Interface Builder. Views can contain modifiers that wrap the view in another layer, and the order of modifiers matters. The framework uses implicit and explicit animations to animate state changes. Implicit animations are triggered by state updates and use animatable modifiers. Explicit animations wrap state changes in an animation closure to control animation behavior. Custom animations can be created by making a type conform to the AnimatableModifier protocol.