Is there any way to use storyboard and SwiftUI in same iOS Xcode project?

Question

As Swift 5 introduces the SwiftUI framework for creating the views, but we are currently using the storyboard for UI design.

So I just wanted to know the procedure t

Answer 1

Yes you can do that! Here are the steps you can take to do so:

1. Go to your current Xcode project -> Storyboard, click on the + sign (right upper corner) and search for Hosting Controller (just like you would for a button or label).

2. Drag Hosting Controller to your Storyboard. Create a Segue connection from your UI element (I'm using a button) to that Hosting Controller and select Push. Create an outlet connection from that Segue to your View Controller (it's a new feature - just like you would create an outlet for a Label), and name it.

3. Declare your view inside of this outlet connection (you can do that, don't have to use PrepareForSegue method), and return it.

For example: I created a SwiftUI view in my current project (in Xcode: File -> New -> File -> SwiftUI View) and called it DetailsView. My outlet connection would look like this:

import UIKit 
import SwiftUI

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBSegueAction func showDetails(_ coder: NSCoder) -> UIViewController? {
        let detailsView = DetailsView()
        return UIHostingController(coder: coder, rootView: detailsView)
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // some code

    }
}

That's it! Now run it.