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[iOS][Provide More Natural Dev Experiences for Swift Developers]

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Platform-iOS Request
Dominant language
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Description

What platform is your feature request related to? (Delete other platforms).

  • iOS

Describe the solution you'd like
The newer iOS developers are more familiar with Swift, so we need strategy on accommodating this need. Since objective-c library can be co-oped with Swift code base via bridge header, this may not be a big concern, but we need to have a better solution for custom renderers.
The custom renderer requires developers to interact with our c++ object model if values have to be read from json payload. This requirement may not be an issue to devs familiar with objective-c due to the language similarities and heritages, but it may be too burdensome to some swift developers.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the iOS custom-renderer path, the Objective-C bridge-header integration, and how Swift currently reaches the C++ object model and JSON values. Done would require an agreed, concrete strategy for making custom renderers more natural for Swift developers.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, ios, objective-c, swift
Domain
mobile-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
18/100

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