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iOS & SwiftUI Architecture Standards

Use this skill for iOS work built with SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, and unidirectional state flow.

1. SwiftUI UI Rules

1. Model-View-Intent (MVI) & UDF:
   • Model: Expose single, immutable State properties from your ViewModel (or Reducer if using TCA).
   • View: A pure function rendering the Model. State flows down.
   • Intent: User actions are submitted to the ViewModel as explicit Intents/Events (e.g., via a func send(_ event: Event) pattern). Events flow up.
2. Screen vs View Approach:
   • <Name>Screen or <Name>Coordinator: Handles Environment injection, Navigation, and connects the ViewModel (or Reducer) to the UI.
   • <Name>View: A completely pure, stateless (or strictly internal view-state) SwiftUI View that accepts data via inputs and emits events via closures.
3. Minimize Logic in Views:
   • Do NOT put complex business validation or network requests in .task or .onAppear inside the View struct.
   • All business logic belongs in the injected @Observable ViewModel or TCA Reducer.
4. Swift 6 Concurrency in UI:
   • SwiftUI View structs must be implicitly or explicitly @MainActor isolated.
   • Never use unstructured Task { } without understanding the actor context; use .task { } modifiers tied to view lifecycle.
5. Visibility & Previews:
   • Keep helper Views private or fileprivate if they are only used within a single screen.
   • Provide #Preview blocks for every distinct state of the View (loading, error, success).
6. Component Granularity:
   • Minimize nesting. Extract deep view hierarchies into smaller computed properties returning some View or separate View structs.

2. State Management & Navigation

1. Logic + State Separation:
   • Public functions inside a ViewModel MUST represent user intents/events and generally return Void.
   • Any function computing values internally should be private.
   • State is exposed as published/observable properties.
2. Observation:
   • Use the @Observable macro exclusively. Do NOT use legacy ObservableObject, @Published, or Combine bindings for State management unless interacting with legacy code.

3. Dependency Injection

• Inject dependencies into ViewModels/UseCases via init.
• Use the SwiftUI Environment (@Environment) ONLY for UI-specific dependencies (like formatters, themes, or global view routers), NOT for Repositories or UseCases.