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Comment on How to show SwiftUI PhotosPicker programatically
Excellent, thanks for taking the time to let me know about this! It works exactly as I wanted but sadly the way the picker view controller is shown is still very buggy so I likely will still use my own version using UIViewControllerRepresentable. Very strange it is missing from the documentation, I'm guessing its because the doc parser is not smart enough to process an extension of View in SwiftUI framework when working on the PhotosUI framework - submitted feedback FB11434717.
Sep ’22
Comment on MetalKit in SwiftUI
make the MTKView a lazy var in the Coordinator class and set mtkView.delegate = self when returning it. Return context.coordinator.mtkView from makeUIView. You'll find this pattern in PaymentButton.swift in Apple's Fruta sample. Unfortunately engineers of other frameworks don't get it quite right, e.g. Coordinator(self) is wrong because anyone who knows SwiftUI knows the View struct is immediately discarded.
Dec ’22
Comment on When SwiftUI View is Equatable - questions...
edit: regarding the last question, sorry in my testing View was still Equatable. Once I removed that, the object's == was called and if I had 2 objects and switched them but made the == make them look equal then body wasn't called. ContentView2(object: ((counter % 2 == 0) ? object1 : object2), x: counter2). This probably isn't too useful for ObservedObject but for standard objects that are designed to be immutable, like NSURL or NSManagedObjectID then I suppose this behaviour is useful.
Nov ’23
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
If it doesn't make sense the first thing to learn (and Apple don't do a great job of explaining this) that the View struct hierarchy with its dependency tracking and diffing is the view model already. If you ignore that and use your own view model objects then you'll likely have the same consistency bugs that SwiftUIs implementation using structs was designed to eliminate. It's very tempting to use familiar objects but it really is worth putting the effort in and learning to use View structs.
Jan ’24
Comment on Stop using MVVM for SwiftUI
When it detects a change in data, SwiftUI makes new View structs and diffs then with the previous ones. That difference is used to drive initing/updating/deallocing UIKit objects. Hopefully that helps you understand View structs are the view model.
Jan ’24
Comment on Observation and MainActor
You shouldn't do @State private var vm = ViewModel() because your ViewModel is a class. You would be better using the View as the view model and declaring @State for your data, e.g. @State var showDetails: Bool = false. You could group related state vars into a struct if you like but not a class. You can use mutating func for logic related to the vars.
Apr ’24