Updated for Xcode 12.0
If you’ve used UIKit before, many of the classes you know and love map pretty much directly to their SwiftUI equivalents just by dropping the UI
prefix. That doesn’t mean they are the same thing underneath, just that they have the same or similar functionality.
Here’s a list to get you started, with UIKit class names followed by SwiftUI names:
UITableView
: List
UICollectionView
: No SwiftUI equivalentUILabel
: Text
UITextField
: TextField
UITextField
with isSecureTextEntry
set to true: SecureField
UITextView
: No SwiftUI equivalentUISwitch
: Toggle
UISlider
: Slider
UIButton
: Button
UINavigationController
: NavigationView
UIAlertController
with style .alert
: Alert
UIAlertController
with style .actionSheet
: ActionSheet
UIStackView
with horizontal axis: HStack
UIStackView
with vertical axis: VStack
UIImageView
: Image
UISegmentedControl
: SegmentedControl
UIStepper
: Stepper
UIDatePicker
: DatePicker
NSAttributedString
: Incompatible with SwiftUI; use Text
instead.There are many other components that are exclusive to SwiftUI, such as a stack view that lets us build things by depth rather than horizontally or vertically.
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