UIKit to SwiftUI Delegation with Coordinators and ViewControllers

steps.md

Preliminaries

1. Create final class with name UICloudVisionViewController inheriting UIViewController with all the typical (the UI in the name refers to UIKit) which follows the UIKit approach
2. Create struct with name CloudVisionViewController inheriting from UIViewControllerRepresentable which covers the missing link between SwiftUI and UIKit
3. To exchange data between UIKit and SwiftUI, add a coordinator class to CloudVisionViewController and return an instance of it in the makeCoordinator func

Reflect changes from UIKit in SwiftUI: Communication is delegate-based. The goal is to call a delegate in the custom UIKit UICloudVisionViewController which updates the parent SwiftUI view 4. Add the changing variable to the SwiftUI ContentView as a state variable: @State private var mostRecentFrame: UIImage? = nil 5. Add the changing variable to the CloudVisionViewController as a @Binding var mostRecentFrame: UIImage? 6. Implement a CloudVisionDelegate protocol and in there a function with a Signature such as didUpdateMostRecentFrame(uiCloudVisionViewController: UICloudVisionViewController, mostRecentFrame: UIImage) 7. Add this CloudVisionDelegate as a variable in your custom UICloudVisionViewController (var delegate: UICloudVisionViewControllerDelegate?) will invoked from within the the UI...ViewController:

if let delegate = delegate {
    delegate.didUpdateMostRecentFrame(uiCloudVisionViewController: self, mostRecentFrame: image)
}

8. Implement this CloudVisionDelegate in the Coordiantor class in the CloudVisionViewController
9. Assign the coordinator as delegate to the newly instaniated UICloudVisionViewController in the makeUIViewController func

uiCloudVisionViewController.delegate = context.coordinator

10. In the delegated method in the Coordinator class, update the @Binding variable in the UICloudVisionViewController by accessing the parent.

Reflect changes from SwiftUI in UIKit