Using UIHostingConfiguration Without Cell Views

March 30, 2023

UIHostingConfiguration was introduced in WWDC22 and rightly hyped as a great way for UIKit Collection and Table Views to benefit from SwiftUI’s composability and ease of use by embedding directly inside cell views. However, nothing in content configuration is limited to cell views. We can embed them in any old UIView by using the main method from UIContentConfiguration protocol, makeContentView.