A cross-platform Reddit client built in SwiftUI

by iOS Example

reddit-swiftui

To show off SwiftUI's strength in cross-platform development, I did not use Mac Catalyst for this project. Instead, common UI code is shared between iOS, macOS, and watchOS.

Project Structure

  • Shared - Models, helpers, API, and any shared Views.
  • Reddit-[PLATFORM] - Each target folder contains a Views and Representable folder. Views holds platform-specific views, and Representable contains UIViewRepresentables or NSViewRepresentables.

macOS Specific Features

I've added several things to make the macOS app stand out:

  1. Double click - You can double click on a post to open a new window for the detail view.
  2. NSToolbar - This is implemented entirely in the AppDelegate, and uses standard Cocoa code which interfaces with the SwiftUI views.
  3. TouchBar - TODO

SF Symbols

Because macOS doesn't support SF Symbols, I have created the following extension to make sure shared code works. I would like to replace this with custom icons for macOS that it loads from XCAssets eventually:

/// `SwiftUI` compatibility
#if os(macOS)
extension Image {
    init(systemName: String) {
        self.init(nsImage: NSImage())
    }
}
#endif

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