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Last updated onAug 20, 2024
Last updated onJun 26, 2024
Want to convert your design in Figma to SwiftUI code, but don’t know how to do it efficiently? If so, you are at the right place. In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform your design in Figma to Swift code through a step-by-step guide with DhiWise iOS App Builder.
Transforming a design to code has never been so easy before the introduction of DhiWise. It helps you to convert your beautiful design to a production-ready application within a few clicks. Moreover, it provides complete flexibility in code customization and lets you generate your app code with high accuracy. Sounds amazing, right? 🤩
If you are solely an iOS developer then DhiWise’s iOS App Builder is what you really need to get your app faster to the market. Besides that, it adds the extra benefits of native app development such as better performance, security, scalability, and code accessibility. So, let’s dive deeper into the amazing platform, and explore how to transform Figma to SwiftUI/iOS code with DhiWise iOS App Builder. Well, before that first have a quick overview of DhiWise and its top features.
DhiWise is a multi-technology-based web and mobile app development platform that aims to eliminate repetitive tasks in software app development by leveraging the power of automation. It empowers developers to deliver high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and customizable apps faster to the market. Here are a few feature highlights of DhiWise app development platform.
Figma to code conversion: The platform converts Figma design to iOS (SwiftUI), Android (Kotlin), Flutter, and React code. Also, developers can use DhiWise Figma-to-code plugin to generate desired code.
Auto component detection: DhiWise auto-identifies all your designs and converts them into code.
API management: Add APIs by uploading Postman Collection or simply create REST APIs. And easily configure API requests and responses.
An intuitive UI: No extra training is required to start using the platform.
GitHub and GitLab integration: Simplify code sharing and collaboration with GitHub and GitLab integration. Easily share the preview with others. Also, get your code to IDE.
Full code ownership: Download and customize your code wherever you want, with no issues of vendor lock.
Work with Figma: Figma runs smoothly with DhiWise. Integrate your Figma account with DhiWise and build your apps seamlessly with a wide variety of features.
Smart editor: Smart editor provides a creative space for a developer to build the app they desire without losing any of their routines, without switching back to Figma design again and again.
Secure app development: Get quality code with best-in-class reliability, scalability, and highest compliance.
Overall, the platform makes software development error-free, cost-effective, and highly efficient.
Bringing your design ideas to life with coding all from scratch can be time consuming and requires much effort but iOS App Builder helps you to eliminate the major hurdles in mobile app development.
It provides you with everything to build a successful app for an Apple ecosystem. Follow the steps below to convert your design from Figma to SwiftUI.
Sign up to DhiWise with your Google, GitHub, or Discord account.
Sign up with DhiWise
Once your account is all set, you will be navigated to the platform Dashboard, where you can view and search the created applications, and select templates for web and mobile apps.
From the Dashboard, you can choose your application playground. To build an iOS app, select Mobile App Playground, where you can create Android, and iOS apps using Flutter, Swift, or Kotlin.
Choose Application Playground as Mobile App
Once you have chosen the Mobile App, you will be redirected to the next screen, where you can either upload your Figma design or choose one from DhiWise’s prebuilt Templates and Categories.
Click the Start Building to start uploading your Figma design.
Upload Figma Design or Choose from the Template
In the next step, define the following core attributes of your application:
After defining the core attributes of your app click Start Building to proceed.
Define Core Attributes
This step allows you to select design screens of your choice and set up app configuration.
Next, select the web application screens you want to import from the Figma URL you provided and click Confirm Selection.
Screen Selection
Under the Application setup, configure your application identifier and icon, and once your application is all set click Save and Continue.
Application Setup
The platform will only take a few minutes to fetch Figma resources.
Fetching Core Attributes
Congrats! DhiWise has auto-identified UI components and auto-setup actions in your iOS application.
Auto Identified UI Components
Once the components are identified you can proceed to the setup splash screen and screen next to the splash screen as shown below.
Select the initial screen for your app and click Next step.
Setup Splash Screen
Select the screen to be opened after the splash screen for your app and click Submit
Setup Screen Next to Splash Screen
From here, you can move to the screen list to start customizing the application UI.
The image below shows your selected application screens. This is your one-stop shop for screen management!
Search for specific screens, view integrated actions, edit screen names for clarity, or remove unwanted screens. Ready to customize? Simply select a screen and click Configure to get started.
Screen List View
DhiWise allows you to customize UI through its visual builder, you can change view set actions, integrate API, and more.
Cutomize Screen
With the Integrate API functionality, you can set up a connection with the server and add, view, edit, and delete APIs.
API Integration
For adding a new API you can either upload a Postman file from the existing Postman collection or create and add API manually with a DhiWise API runner.
Add New API
Note: The platform uses Alamofire library to handle the web requests and responses in iOS and macOS.
The one more thing DhiWise simplifies is adding constants to your code. It allows you to create and manage multiple constant files in the app.
Add Constants
After completing your UI customization tasks, which may involve adding actions, setting up APIs, and other necessary adjustments, you can proceed to generate the app code.
With DhiWise iOS builder, you have the option of generating code for individual screens or multiple screens or generating app code directly with the Build app option.
Export Code for Single or Multiple Screens
Once you click Build app you will be asked to select the build type as shown below. Here, let’s select the Only UI Code as a desired build type to proceed and build the app.
Code Export Options
As you select the build type you can see how DhiWise iOS builder starts building your iOS app.
Build App
The platform generates clean code with reusable code components. As your final code is generated you can download the entire source code from the platform or sync it with your GitHub or GitLab Repository.
Once the code is generated, you will be redirected to the screen where you can view your generated code. To download code or sync code, click Sync or Download code from the top-right corner of the screen. Also, you can view the Code Summary which shows a version of the displayed code, the last build version, and the code type.
View Code Summary Sync and Download Code
To download your app source code click Download, and a ZIP file will be downloaded to your system. To sync code to GitHub or GitLab, select your preferred option and repository in which you want your code.
Sync Code with GitHub and GitLab
Or you can go to Settings, click Integrations, and click Select repository and follow the steps and your code will be synced to the selected repository.
Sync Code from Setting
Even after generating the source code, you can still make the app changes using the iOS App Builder and build again to get new changes in code or download and work on your preferred IDE. The platform gives you complete code ownership, so you can download the code and update the same on your favorite IDE.
Have a look at this sample code generated with DhiWise iOS app builder.
👉 Check out our Youtube videos to know more about the Figma to SwiftUI code feature in DhiWise’s iOS builder: A complete playlist of DhiWise iOS Builder.
The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on converting Figma to SwiftUI/iOS code using DhiWise iOS App Builder. With the platform, you need to follow a few steps to generate the final UI code from Figma design, ultimately speeding up your app development process. Furthermore, the platform goes above and beyond by offering a Flutter builder, capable of transforming Figma designs into Flutter code effortlessly.
For developers who want to start right at the code level, the ProCode platform offers the Figma to Code plugin that lets them get the code from the Figma platform. The plugin can also convert Figma design to Flutter, Android(Kotlin), and React, Next.js, and HTML code. So, this is just about the DhiWise Frontend development capabilities, behind the scenes DhiWise has more to offer!
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Where most other No-Code and Low-Code development platforms are restricted to only front-end development, DhiWise- A ProCode platform goes one step further. Sign up for free to experience the bliss of efficient, cleaner, and effortless app development. Happy coding!😊
