SwiftUI equivalent components

[warmachinesocial]

Firstly @david-swift 🙌🙌 great work... Recently I was looking at swiftui and love writing in declarative way. Was looking on how to make apps for linux until yesterday WWDC lead me here.

I was trying to make a calculator app, however missing Spacer(), more Text() parameters (foreground color...). Please consider me very new to UI and don't have much clue on libadwaita and gtk.

I willing to help, in writing documentation and code, any group chat or just github?

[david-swift]

Thanks for opening the discussion!

yesterday WWDC lead me here.

How?

SwiftUI equivalent components

This is definitely an important point. There are some wrappers, type extensions, and aliases making GTK/Libadwaita views easier to use for people familiar with SwiftUI (such as Text for Label, button‘s initializer, etc.). Still, a lot of the autogenerated widgets do not have a SwiftUI-like interface. There is still room for many additions making the experience more SwiftUI-like:

• Type aliases
• „Aliases“ for modifiers
• Initializers (many are without any parameters and modifiers should be used for almost everything, while initializers in SwiftUI often have important properties as parameters)

Still, there are differences between GTK/Libadwaita and SwiftUI that make certain concepts difficult to adapt or maybe even not very useful. Spacer is such an example. valign, halign, and vexpand, hexpand are used instead. I think it would be nice to have an article showing a SwiftUI view and its Adwaita counterpart for those cases.

any group chat or just github?

Currently just GitHub. Personally, I think it’s great if also questions about the „backend“ are organized in the discussions. Very cool you’re interested in contributing!

[warmachinesocial]

Instead of valign or halign could we not use Spacer()? Like hide underneath

[warmachinesocial]

Well past a year I was learning swift and swiftui... I would have to say I love swiftui and swift(something's don't like or may be I still knowledge). So I was following wwdc from 2023, so was waiting for 2024 (this video lead me here -> https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10136/)