How to Use an SDK Built for UIKit in Your SwiftUI App
Blog post from Stream
SwiftUI is becoming more popular with each iOS release, although it may not yet be the best choice for building complex user experiences like chat and video calls compared to UIKit. However, developers can still utilize SDKs designed for UIKit within SwiftUI apps, as demonstrated in a tutorial using Stream Chat's iOS SDK. This involves configuring the SDK in the SwiftUI App struct initializer and wrapping UIKit components, such as UIViewController or UIView, in SwiftUI conforming structures like `UIViewControllerRepresentable` and `UIViewRepresentable`. By doing so, developers can integrate fully-featured chat interfaces and other UIKit components into their SwiftUI applications while maintaining the SwiftUI lifecycle, thereby leveraging the extensive library of UIKit-based SDKs within a SwiftUI context.