I'm just curious about this; has anyone tried embedding SwiftUI inside Compose Multiplatform? Curiou...

# compose-ios

[Andrew Watson]

I'm just curious about this; has anyone tried embedding SwiftUI inside Compose Multiplatform? Curious if it works any sort of well

[Joel Denke]

Yes but very clumpsy syntax compared to Android view equivalent. It works but feels uhm unnatural

[Andrew Watson]

Thanks 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]

Use Compose Multiplatform for most screens, SwiftUI when needed

[Joel Denke]

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-multiplatform-dev/compose-ios-ui-integration.html#use-swiftui-inside-compose-multiplatform

[Joel Denke]

I 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 😁

[Andrew Watson]

Fair enough!

[Joel Denke]

From my experience swiftui never needed if go compose multiplatform. More to interact with iOS SDKs and objc uikit components but sparely.

[Joel Denke]

But also I am not an iOS expert. So wouldnt take my advice that heavy weight.

[curioustechizen]

There 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.

[Andrew Watson]

If 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

[curioustechizen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVi4aV36d8▾

[Kashismails]

i 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