SwiftUI Navigation: Sheets & Popovers, Part 2

Episode #163 • Oct 11, 2021 • Subscriber-Only

This week we’ll explore how to drive a sheet with optional state and how to facilitate communication between the sheet and the view presenting it. In the process we will discover a wonderful binding transformation for working with optionals.

Sheets & Popovers, Part 2
Introduction
00:05
@Binding over @State
01:26
Derived behavior: binding transformations
08:38
Adding an item row domain
15:30
Next time: editing and duplicating items
30:18

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Introduction

The reason we’d want to do such a refactor is that putting the cancel and save hooks in the child view causes the view to be overly specified. Maybe we want to reuse that view in situations where the buttons have different labels, or different placement, or not visible at all. Supporting all of those use cases would mean we have to pass in all types of configuration data to describe exactly what kind of ItemView we want.

It would be far better if we just allowed whoever creates the ItemView to be responsible for attaching the action buttons, and then it would be free to use whatever labels or placement it wants.

Unfortunately this is not possible right now because the most up to date version of the item state lives only in the ItemView’s @State field. The outside simply does not have access to that data.

So, these 3 problems are substantial enough for us to want to find another way to manage this state. In order to facilitate communication between these two views we simply need to get rid of @State and reach for a tool that allows for 2-way communication.

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References

SwiftUI Navigation

Brandon Williams & Stephen Celis • Tuesday Nov 16, 2021

After 9 episodes exploring SwiftUI navigation from the ground up, we open sourced a library with all new tools for making SwiftUI navigation simpler, more ergonomic and more precise.

Crash in Binding's failable initializer

Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis

We uncovered a crash in SwiftUI’s Binding initializer that can fail, and filed a feedback with Apple. We suggest other duplicate our feedback so that this bug is fixed as soon as possible.

WWDC 2021: Demystifying SwiftUI

Matt Ricketson, Luca Bernardi & Raj Ramamurthy • Wednesday Jun 9, 2021

An in-depth explaining on view identity, lifetime, and more, and crucial to understanding how @State works.

SE-0293: Extend Property Wrappers to Function and Closure Parameters

Holly Borla & Filip Sakel • Tuesday Oct 6, 2020

The proposal that added property wrapper support to function and closure parameters, unlocking the ability to make binding transformations even more powerful.

Collection: Derived Behavior

Brandon Williams & Stephen Celis • Monday May 17, 2021

The ability to break down applications into small domains that are understandable in isolation is a universal problem, and yet there is no default story for doing so in SwiftUI. We explore the problem space and solutions, in both vanilla SwiftUI and the Composable Architecture.

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