How to integrate SpriteKit using SpriteView

Paul Hudson @twostraws June 23rd 2020

Updated for Xcode 12.0

New in iOS 14

SwiftUI’s SpriteView lets us render any SKScene subclass right inside SwiftUI, although you do need to be careful to either create your scene from an SKS file that declares a size, or to specify a size yourself.

To try it out, first add import SpriteKit to your Swift file.

Second, create some sort of game scene you want to render. For example, this will create falling boxes wherever you tap, adding a physics effect so they interact neatly:

class GameScene: SKScene {
    override func didMove(to view: SKView) {
        physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(edgeLoopFrom: frame)
    }

    override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
        guard let touch = touches.first else { return }
        let location = touch.location(in: self)
        let box = SKSpriteNode(color: UIColor.red, size: CGSize(width: 50, height: 50))
        box.position = location
        box.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(rectangleOf: CGSize(width: 50, height: 50))
        addChild(box)
    }
}

Third, create your game scene somewhere, making sure to give it a specific size. Mine is being created programmatically, so I’m giving it a precise size of 300x400 points:

struct ContentView: View {
    var scene: SKScene {
        let scene = GameScene()
        scene.size = CGSize(width: 300, height: 400)
        scene.scaleMode = .fill
        return scene
    }

    var body: some View {
        // more code here
    }
}

And now you can create a SpriteView inside your body property, using that game scene:

SpriteView(scene: scene)
    .frame(width: 300, height: 400)
    .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)

The game scene you create is fully interactive, so it works just like a regular SKView would do in UIKit.

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How to integrate SpriteKit using SpriteView

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