Hi, is it possible in iosMain to have: ```actual t...

# multiplatform

[felislynx]

Hi, is it possible in iosMain to have:

actual typealias Screen = View

(SwiftUI View). I can't import it, i see there is a UIView but it is not the same thing

[Landry Norris]

SwiftUI View is a Swift struct, which cinterop doesn't support. Swift structs have copy mechanics that don't match well with any existing Kotlin constructs.

[felislynx]

@Landry Norris i've also asked this to bard and it gave me this:
import kotlin.native.objc.OCClass

actual typealias Screen = objc.OCClass(SwiftUI.View)
what do you think about this?

[felislynx]

I mean i just want to have this typealias and i don't want to use any methods

[Landry Norris]

LLMs like Bard aren't always reliable when it comes to generating code, especially for new and niche technologies (SwiftUI would be too new for there to be a lot of resources and Kotlin/Native has changed a lot since knowledge cutoffs). They also often hallucinate code when convenient.

[felislynx]

it is just typealias for common where methods returns Screen (and they are implemented in each platform native code)

[Landry Norris]

As of now, Kotlin doesn't interop with Swift structs, and likely won't without real value types (different from value class), which JVM doesn't support.

[felislynx]

ok, so this is just impossible task

[Landry Norris]

You'd likely be best off with UIKit and UIView.

[felislynx]

Ok, thank you