SwiftUI TextEdit View

A proof-of-concept text edit component in SwiftUI & CoreText. No UIKit, No AppKit, no UITextView/NSTextView/UITextField involved.

Note Due to SwiftUI limitations (as of May 2021) it’s not possible to handle keystrokes just with SwiftUI. To overcome this limitation, the UIKeyboardViewController is responsible for handling keys and forward to SwiftUI codebase.

If you have questions or want to reach to me, use this thread: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1269402396217745410

Authors

Marcin Krzyzanowski @krzyzanowskim

Screenshots

Usage/Examples

struct TextEditingView: View {
    @State private var text = "type here...\n"
    @State private var font = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body) as CTFont
    @State private var carretWidth = 2.0 as CGFloat

    var body: some View {
        TextEdit(
            text: $text,
            font: $font,
            carretWidth: $carretWidth
        )
    }
}

FAQ

How?

CoreText + SwiftUI.

Why?

For fun and profit.

Here are some related projects

CoreTextSwift

GitHub

https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/SwiftUI.TextEdit

A proof-of-concept text edit component in SwiftUI And CoreText