Implementing design system components on iOS

As a native iOS developer, I’ve been jealous of web developers who can use design systems in their everyday workflow. The ability to look through the library and copy the code of a component can increase the development speed.

Let’s compare how the radio button is described for web and mobile on the Shopify’s design system called Polaris. As we can see, the code snippet is provided for the web, unlike iOS or Android, where you can find just images of the representation.

Usually, iOS developers implement typography, colors, imagery, simple components like buttons and switches, and that’s it. UIKit is not as friendly for design systems as Web or even SwiftUI, where you can construct user interfaces in a nice declarative way. As we still need to support a few previous versions of iOS where SwiftUI is not available, we can develop an approach that can help us to construct user interfaces much quicker and in a more declarative manner… read full article on chililabs.io