When You Can’t Go All In On SwiftUI, Build a Hybrid UI App Instead!

Join us for our next virtual CocoaHeads meetup featuring Vui Nguyen!

Summary: There will be times when building an app entirely in SwiftUI is not an option. Maybe your company has a large UIKit app that you can’t afford to migrate to SwiftUI overnight. Or you start building a new SwiftUI app, and run into technical limitations (due to SwiftUI’s relative “newness”) or a tight deadline, and wish you could pull in an existing, custom-built UIKit component to solve the problem. One solution is to start wherever you’re at, a UIKit or SwiftUI app, and swap in a component from the other framework as needed. I will demonstrate how to do both, starting with a single-screen app in SwiftUI, and also in a similar UIKit app. With a hybrid UI app, you get the benefits of working with a modern UI framework, SwiftUI, while minimizing your project risks!

Bio: Vui is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience across many technology stacks. She is currently a Senior iOS Consultant at Atomic Robot. She’s helping to build a world that she wants to live in, one where women experience gender parity in tech. Vui does this through her advocacy and volunteering for Women Who Code, and by speaking at tech events, teaching workshops, and mentoring women developers on coding and technical speaking. When she’s not coding, Vui enjoys fishing, eating, sleeping, and repeating. And glamping, and traveling to different places to go fishing.