SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

53. Integrating UIViewControllers with SwiftUI

The previous chapter outlined how to integrate UIView based components into SwiftUI using the UIViewRepresentable protocol. This chapter will focus on the second option for combining SwiftUI and UIKit within an iOS project in the form of UIViewController integration.

53.1 UIViewControllers and SwiftUI

The UIView integration outlined in the previous chapter is useful for integrating either individual or small groups of UIKit-based components with SwiftUI. Existing iOS apps are likely to consist of multiple ViewControllers, each representing an entire screen layout and functionality (also referred to as scenes). SwiftUI allows entire view controller instances to be integrated via the UIViewControllerRepresentable ...