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Neil Smyth
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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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52.2 Integrating UIViews into SwiftUI

The individual components that make up the user interface of a UIKit-based application are derived from the UIView class. Buttons, labels, text views, maps, sliders and drawings (to name a few) are all ultimately subclasses of the UIKit UIView class.

To facilitate the integration of a UIView based component into a SwiftUI view declaration, SwiftUI provides the UIViewRepresentable protocol. To integrate a UIView component into SwiftUI, that component needs to be wrapped in a structure that implements this protocol.

At a minimum the wrapper structure must implement the following methods to comply with the UIViewRepresentable protocol:

makeUIView() – This method is responsible for creating an instance of the UIView-based component, performing any necessary initialization and returning it.

updateView() – Called each time a change occurs within the containing SwiftUI view that requires the UIView to update...

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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