I'm just curious about this; has anyone tried embe...
# compose-iosa
Andrew Watson
11/30/2023, 8:18 PMI'm just curious about this; has anyone tried embedding SwiftUI inside Compose Multiplatform? Curious if it works any sort of well
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Joel Denke
11/30/2023, 8:28 PMYes but very clumpsy syntax compared to Android view equivalent. It works but feels uhm unnatural
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Andrew Watson
11/30/2023, 8:29 PMThanks for the response. How is the performance? I guess what I'm thinking about is if I want to do a full in-place replacement of a compose multiplatform screen with a swift UI one
Andrew Watson
11/30/2023, 8:29 PMUse Compose Multiplatform for most screens, SwiftUI when needed
Joel Denke
11/30/2023, 8:31 PMI recommend ditch Swift ui as much as possible. I strive for zero Swift code myself. Performance depends what you doing. I havent tested large scale and only testing in iOS simulator. I dont own an iPhone 😁
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Andrew Watson
11/30/2023, 8:31 PMFair enough!
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Joel Denke
11/30/2023, 8:32 PMFrom my experience swiftui never needed if go compose multiplatform. More to interact with iOS SDKs and objc uikit components but sparely.
Joel Denke
11/30/2023, 8:33 PMBut also I am not an iOS expert. So wouldnt take my advice that heavy weight.
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curioustechizen
12/01/2023, 4:59 AMThere is a presentation (I think it was from KotlinConf) that demonstrated when you would need to embed a SwiftUI View inside a Composable and how to do it.
Typical examples are platform-specific things like CameraView, MapView, Video players, WebView etc.
Of course you could also do this by embedding a UIKitView but it is likely that there us a SwiftUI wrapper for the platform native functionality already.
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Andrew Watson
12/01/2023, 5:08 AMIf you can find that presentation I'd love to see it. I want to make sure doing that doesn't cause any odd performance issues
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Kashismails
12/01/2023, 8:54 AMi tried it for text field but using a interface that is then implemented by a uiview, the uiview is then used inside compose multiplatform. Its not not good
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