Adding UITextView to SwiftUI

Question

i tried to add UITextView to swiftUI because there are things that TextEditor isn't capable of doing. Here's how I built it

struct TextViewSwift : UIViewRepresentable {
    func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UITextView {
        let textView = UITextView()
        textView.text = "Testing UITextView"
        return textView
    }
    
    func updateUIView(_ uiView: UITextView, context: Context) {
        
    }
    
    typealias UIViewType = UITextView
    
}

So I test it out with UILabel (because I want to make sure that the code is working when doing with other UIkit component)

and turns out when I debug the view, not even the UITextView appear, is it a bug within the SwiftUI it self or am I missing something? Thank you

Only UILabel appear

Does this answer your question https://stackoverflow.com/a/65181467/12299030? — Asperi, Feb 07 '22 at 15:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '22 at 21:44

Just need a Text view? Try this.

import SwiftUI

struct TextArea: View {
    @Binding var text: String
    let placeholder: String
    
    init(_ placeholder: String, text: Binding<String>) {
        self._text = text
        self.placeholder = placeholder
        UITextView.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
    }
    
    var body: some View {
        ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) {
            if text.isEmpty {
                Text(placeholder)
                    .foregroundColor(Color(.placeholderText))
                    .padding(.horizontal, 8)
                    .padding(.vertical, 12)
            }
            
            TextEditor(text: $text)
                .padding(4)
        }.font(.body)
    }
}

there are things that TextEditor is not capable at this point, this does not answer my question — Daniel Silalahi, Feb 09 '22 at 03:41

Adding UITextView to SwiftUI

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