Swiftui Uikit Interop

A practical reference for moving between SwiftUI and UIKit when you need camera controllers, document scanners, attributed text, or any of the hundred UIKit components still missing native SwiftUI equivalents. The guide walks through UIViewRepresentable and UIViewControllerRepresentable with clear lifecycle tables showing when makeUIView versus updateUIView fires, plus coordinator patterns for delegate callbacks. Targets iOS 26 with Swift 6.3 but notes backward compatibility to iOS 16. Most valuable for the state synchronization patterns and the common mistakes section, since getting binding updates to flow correctly across the framework boundary is where most interop bugs live. Good for incremental migrations or just wrapping that one UIKit view you can't replace yet.

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$ npx -y skills add dpearson2699/swift-ios-skills --skill swiftui-uikit-interop --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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SwiftUI-UIKit Interop

Bridge UIKit and SwiftUI in both directions: wrap UIKit views and controllers, embed SwiftUI in UIKit screens, and synchronize state without duplicating lifecycle ownership.

See references/representable-recipes.md for complete wrapping recipes and references/hosting-migration.md for UIKit-to-SwiftUI migration patterns.