Using without SwiftUI

[martindufort]

I'm wondering if we are losing any of the RichTextKit functionalities if we are integrating it with an AppKit/UIKit only codebase.

Any parts of the framework that is SwiftUI-only?

[danielsaidi]

Hi @martindufort

Much of the underlying functionality is cross-platform, but a lot of utilities are SwiftUI only.

[martindufort]

OK so here, in our company land, we are still AppKit / UIKit.
So what's our best strategy to leverage the complete functional set of RichTextKit.

Should we go UIHostingController as a child view controller and set RichTextEditor as the rootView?
Anyone here tested this path?

Thanks

[danielsaidi]

Hi @martindufort

I'm not really sure what the best approach would be. I tried to keep the SwiftUI layer thin, and just make it call down to the platform-specific layers, but it quickly became too brittle.

You can perhaps check if the rich text component APIs are enough to get you where you need.