Keyboard avoiding in SwiftUI

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Compares several open source approaches, finds their animations out of sync with the keyboard and extra gestures cause bugs, then builds a custom keyboard avoiding solution that combines a UIKit controller wrapper around SwiftUI views with keyboard notifications taken from userInfo so animation duration and curve match exactly. It detects the first responder, finds the enclosing scroll view, scrolls the active field into view and respects a bottom content padding. Result synchronizes animations with the keyboard and fixes many edge cases while keeping scroll interaction intact.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:05Speaker intro
3. 2:07Keyboard problem in SwiftUI
4. 3:09Third-party libraries overview
5. 4:59KeyboardObserving testing
6. 6:02Animation bugs
7. 7:10First library findings
8. 7:53KeyboardToolbar overview
9. 8:54Library code analysis
10. 10:17Performance issues
11. 11:00KeyboardToolbar testing
12. 12:48Second library findings
13. 13:54Keyboard problem pre-SwiftUI
14. 14:18Apple’s iOS 14 solution
15. 15:25ScrollView and TextField issues
16. 16:33Keyboard animation setup
17. 17:36Standard solution limits
18. 18:20Library and animation issues
19. 19:43Custom solution plan
20. 20:04Disabling standard input
21. 20:27KeyboardController usage
22. 21:54Padding approach
23. 23:01Why KeyboardController
24. 24:07Modal window issues
25. 25:31Content padding setup
26. 26:34Main algorithm
27. 27:17Solution test results
28. 28:22ScrollView part two
29. 29:08ScrollView animation issues
30. 30:35Finding first responder
31. 31:42Finding ScrollView in hierarchy
32. 32:44Nested ScrollView issues
33. 33:27Keyboard distance setup
34. 34:54UIKit TextField issues
35. 35:17ScrollView findings
36. 36:02KeyboardScrollAdvocator bonus
37. 37:10Ending text editing
38. 38:40SiteReporter bonus
39. 39:45Conclusion and experiments
40. 40:07Q&A

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