I'm reworking my app for SwiftUI 2.0 but have come across a problem when replicating what I could do with AppDelegate.
I'm using NSViewRepresentable to get access to NSWindow so I can remove the titlebar of the window (I know it's not in the guidelines but this will never be submitted). When removing .titled from styleMask, the app crashes.
struct WindowAccessor: NSViewRepresentable {
#Binding var window: NSWindow?
func makeNSView(context: Context) -> NSView {
let view = NSView()
DispatchQueue.main.async {
self.window = view.window
self.window?.isOpaque = false
self.window?.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true
self.window?.backgroundColor = NSColor.clear
self.window?.styleMask = [.fullSizeContentView]
self.window?.isMovableByWindowBackground = true
self.window?.backingType = .buffered
}
return view
}
func updateNSView(_ nsView: NSView, context: Context) {}
}
#main
struct MyApp_App: App {
#State private var window: NSWindow?
var body: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
ContentView().background(WindowAccessor(window: $window))
}
}
}
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
Text("Hello, world!").padding().background(Color(NSColor.windowBackgroundColor))
}
}
When I run the app I get Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=EXC_I386_GPFLT)
All I'm trying to achieve with my app is a Menu Bar application that looks exactly like Spotlight. No dock icon, no title bar, all preferences to be handled by a popover or another window.
EDIT:
Is this something to do with the canBecomeKey property?
I am writing a small App for the Mac..
I need to disable to (Green Button) for full screen.
I am using SwiftUI App not AppKit App Delegate
Cant find how to disable the Full Screen Button for my app.
Any thoughts?
Because no one answered with a cleaner SwiftUI only version:
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
HostingWindowFinder { window in
window?.standardWindowButton(.zoomButton)?.isHidden = true //this removes the green zoom button
}
Text("Hello world")
}
}
struct HostingWindowFinder: NSViewRepresentable {
var callback: (NSWindow?) -> ()
func makeNSView(context: Self.Context) -> NSView {
let view = NSView()
DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak view] in
self.callback(view?.window)
}
return view
}
func updateNSView(_ nsView: NSView, context: Context) {}
}
HostingWindowFinder concept taken from https://lostmoa.com/blog/ReadingTheCurrentWindowInANewSwiftUILifecycleApp/
I am trying to use the NSVisualEffectView in my project with SwiftUI. This is how I imported it:
struct VisualEffectView: NSViewRepresentable {
func makeNSView(context: Context) -> NSVisualEffectView {
let view = NSVisualEffectView()
view.blendingMode = .withinWindow
view.isEmphasized = true
view.material = .sidebar
return view
}
func updateNSView(_ nsView: NSVisualEffectView, context: Context) {
}
}
Then this is how I am using it
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Image("someImage")
SomeText()
.background(VisualEffectView())
}
}
Eventually, it showed up on the screen as a box grey box without translucent or blur. Anyone know what I am missing from the example above? Thank you for your help
When I create a view in SwiftUI and render it in an Xcode preview, using PreviewLayout.sizeThatFits, the preview adjusts its size according to its content. When I import a UIKIt view using UIViewRepresentable, it appears with a full device-size frame.
Is there a way to make SwiftUI respect the intrinsicContentSize of UIView subclasses?
struct Label: UIViewRepresentable {
func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<Label>) -> UILabel {
return UILabel()
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UILabel, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<Label>) {
uiView.text = "Some text"
}
}
#if DEBUG
struct Label_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
Group {
Label().previewLayout(.sizeThatFits)
}
}
}
#endif
Add the following to your updateUIView function:
uiView.setContentHuggingPriority(.defaultHigh, for: .vertical)
uiView.setContentHuggingPriority(.defaultHigh, for: .horizontal)
You can also limit the UIViewRepresentable size from the SwiftUI side.
For this you can use fixedSize:
struct Label_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
Label()
.fixedSize()
.previewLayout(.sizeThatFits)
}
}
You can also fix the view size in one dimension only:
.fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true)
As Swift 5 introduces the SwiftUI framework for creating the views, but we are currently using the storyboard for UI design.
So I just wanted to know the procedure to use Storyboard and Swift UI in same iOS Single View Application.
I just started to look at the SwiftUI. Sharing a small example.
In the storyboard add Hosting View Controller
Subclass the UIHostingController with your own class (ChildHostingController)
ChildHostingController should look something like that:
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
struct SecondView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text("Second View").font(.system(size: 36))
Text("Loaded by SecondView").font(.system(size: 14))
}
}
}
class ChildHostingController: UIHostingController<SecondView> {
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder: coder,rootView: SecondView());
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
}
For more details have a look at Custom UIHostingController
Apple Docs UIhostingController (Unfortunatelly it hasn't been documented yet)
Integrating SwiftUI Video
Mixing UIKit with SwiftUI
Both can be embedded and mixed SwiftUI in Storyboards and the other way around
UIViewControllerRepresentable used for embedding Storyboards in SwiftUI
Create the ViewController on a Storyboard and give it a Storyboard ID
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
StoryboardViewController()
}
}
struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
ContentView()
}
}
struct StoryboardViewController: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> some UIViewController {
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Storyboard", bundle: Bundle.main)
let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(identifier: "Main")
return controller
}
func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: UIViewControllerType, context: Context) {
}
}
Communication between UIKit and SwiftUI can be through #Binding variable. This will let SwiftUI view inject variable state and control the it, func updateUIViewController will be called to do the work when changed.
UIViewRepresentable used same way for views
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
#State var color = UIColor.green
var body: some View {
SampleView(color: $color).frame(width: 100, height: 100
, alignment: .center)
}
}
struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
ContentView()
}
}
struct SampleView: UIViewRepresentable {
#Binding var color: UIColor
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> some UIView {
return UIView()
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIViewType, context: Context) {
uiView.backgroundColor = color
}
}
UIHostingController used for embedding SwiftUI in UIKit
First is to be created programmatically
let childViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: SwiftUIContentView())
addChild(childViewController)
childViewController.view.frame = frame
view.addSubview(childViewController.view)
childViewController.didMove(toParent: self)
Second with Xcode 11 by adding Hosting View Controller to the storyboard and create a segue to it and then create an #IBSegueAction by Control-drag from the segue to your ViewController and then create an instance of the SwiftUI view and pass it to HostingViewController initializer
Third is by adding Hosting View Controller to the storyboard and then subclassing it as mentioned in the previous answer above https://stackoverflow.com/a/58250271/3033056
Yes you can do that! Here are the steps you can take to do so:
Go to your current Xcode project -> Storyboard, click on the + sign (right upper corner) and search for Hosting Controller (just like you would for a button or label).
Drag Hosting Controller to your Storyboard. Create a Segue connection from your UI element (I'm using a button) to that Hosting Controller and select Push.
Create an outlet connection from that Segue to your View Controller (it's a new feature - just like you would create an outlet for a Label), and name it.
Declare your view inside of this outlet connection (you can do that, don't have to use PrepareForSegue method), and return it.
For example: I created a SwiftUI view in my current project (in Xcode: File -> New -> File -> SwiftUI View) and called it DetailsView. My outlet connection would look like this:
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBSegueAction func showDetails(_ coder: NSCoder) -> UIViewController? {
let detailsView = DetailsView()
return UIHostingController(coder: coder, rootView: detailsView)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// some code
}
}
That's it! Now run it.
as Edgell Mentioned, there is a new ViewController named HostViewController that can host a SwiftUI page inside it.
there's a complete talk about integrating SwiftUI in existing project at WWDC that answers your question very well.
Integrating SwiftUI:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/231/
WWDC19:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/
Add SwiftUI to a UIKit project:
1) Display a complete screen from SwiftUI:
If this is your case, you need just to follow this article or check one of the above answers.
2) Add SwiftUI view inside UIViewController:
In this case, follow the following steps:
Add this extension to your project:
This extension is copy pasted from a scale project in production:
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
extension UIViewController {
/// component: View created by SwiftUI
/// targetView: The UIView that will host the component
func host(component: AnyView, into targetView: UIView) {
let controller = UIHostingController(rootView: component)
self.addChild(controller)
controller.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
targetView.addSubview(controller.view)
controller.didMove(toParent: self)
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
controller.view.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: targetView.widthAnchor, multiplier: 1),
controller.view.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: targetView.heightAnchor, multiplier: 1),
controller.view.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: targetView.centerXAnchor),
controller.view.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: targetView.centerYAnchor)
])
}
}
Use the extension inside your viewDidLoad:
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
class ViewController: UIViewController {
// MARK: - Outlets
// This view should have the needed constraints
// bc we are going to magically convert it to your `SwiftUI` view!
#IBOutlet weak var myUIView: UIView!
// MARK: - Life Cycle
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Create instance from your `SwiftUI` view
let mySwiftUIView = SomeAmazingView()
// Use the extension
self.host(component: AnyView(mySwiftUIView), into: myUIView)
}
}
That's all, good luck!
You need to add a "Host View Controller" to the Storyboard. The SwiftUI form will be displayed in the Host View Controller and is callable from any Storyboard Form.
Be advised, the Host View Controller does not display in the Library for Xcode 11 on Mohave, you must be on Catalina. This is a bug, because once you have a project with a Host View Controller created on Catalina, that same project will run fine on Mohave, in fact, you can even copy that Host View Controller to other Storyboards and it will wok fine.