Swift messages not working in Swift UI

[Mteixeira88]

Hi there,

I'm trying to use Swift Messages on Swift UI and for some reason it's not showing

This is the code I'm trying to use:

.onAppear() {
         
 let view = MessageView.viewFromNib(layout: .cardView)
               
view.configureTheme(.warning)
                
view.configureDropShadow()
                
let iconText = ["🤔", "😳", "🙄", "😶"].randomElement()!
                
view.configureContent(title: "Warning", body: "Consider yourself warned.", iconText: iconText)

                view.layoutMarginAdditions = UIEdgeInsets(top: 20, left: 20, bottom: 20, right

                (view.backgroundView as? CornerRoundingView)?.cornerRadius = 10

                SwiftMessages.show(view: view)

        }

I already tried to use in a button click and it didn't work. Can you help? Thanks

[wtmoose]

I likely won't have time to look into SwiftUI anytime soon.

[Mteixeira88]

I likely won't have time to look into SwiftUI anytime soon.

Thanks for answering

[Jasperav]

That would be great because than we can use it in SPM

[wtmoose]

@Jasperav huh?

[Jasperav]

Swift Package Manager supports SwiftUI, not UIKit. We can get rid of Cocoapods/Cartage and use a native dependency manager instead.

[wtmoose]

@Jasperav I view this as a compatibility ticket. It's not about converting the library to SwiftUI.

[sheikhumar93]

For anyone looking to use this library in their SwiftUI projects, technically all UIKit code works with SwiftUI. You have to use the UIViewControllerRepresentable protocol to achieve this. I just implemented the Bottom Message Segue in this library using pretty much the same setup in Storyboard as shown in the Demo. Then implement code like this to use it from SwiftUI

struct BottomMessageSegue: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
    
    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> some UIViewController {
        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Storyboard", bundle: Bundle.main)
        let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(identifier: "InitialVC")
        return vc
    }
    
    func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: UIViewControllerType, context: Context) {
        
    }

}

Replace identifier with your own. Create a View Controller and assign it to the root View Controller Scene in the Storyboard Again pretty much the same code as shown in the Demo

import UIKit
import SwiftMessages

class ViewControllersViewController: UIViewController {
    @objc @IBAction private func dismissPresented(segue: UIStoryboardSegue) {
        dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
    
    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(true)
        performSegue(withIdentifier: "showTools", sender: nil)
    }
}

class SwiftMessagesBottomSegue: SwiftMessagesSegue {
    override public init(identifier: String?, source: UIViewController, destination: UIViewController) {
        super.init(identifier: identifier, source: source, destination: destination)
        configure(layout: .bottomMessage)
    }
}

with the addition of performSegue() in the viewDidAppear(), replace the segue identifier with your own and you are done.

Use BottomMessageSegue() as you would use any other SwiftUI view and it will just work without any problems. Have fun!

[hernangonzalez]

So this issue can actually be closed with a README update, right?