Hi , I have a question about integration with old ...

# compose-ios

[Ahmed na]

Hi ,
I have a question about integration with old projects ,
I have a design system library for both android and ios (separate sdks)
Android uses normal xml (migrating to compose)
iOS uses UIkit (migrating to swiftUI)

i would love to start sharing code between them while doing the migrations (at component level at least)

for compose-ios will it output swiftUI ? (what is under the hood?)
or something completely different ? and if so any possible chance to integrate with it ?

[michaelv]

right now it just draws to the canvas like Flutter. But in the future it might use Redwood. https://github.com/cashapp/redwood/

[michaelv]

maybe we’ll have both options but not sure. also interested to find out more about the direction they want to go with this.

[michaelv]

to do canvas and have it look different on each platform you have to maintain a whole bunch of components like Flutter does with it Cupertino widgets. So no sure if anyone is going to create and maintain that.

[michaelv]

Redwood definitely looks more promising long term but it’s rather complex in comparison.

[Ahmed na]

thanks ! @michaelv
I was hoping it will "introp" into swiftUI , and be as compatible to native as the business logic side, which our ios team found highly adoptive

[michaelv]

with Redwood it will be.

[michaelv]

someone shared this talk recently. I recommend having a watch

https://youtu.be/WwMxXcFX1dI?&t=22709▾

[michaelv]

about Redwood

[Ahmed na]

oh wow zipline code push for kmm ! ❤️