SearchBar

What This Skill Does

The SearchBar skill for OpenClaw provides comprehensive developer assistance for integrating and customizing the SearchBar component in SwiftUI. It acts as an expert companion for implementing native-feeling search interfaces across Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS). Whether you are building a basic search input or complex interfaces involving tokens and dynamic suggestions, this skill guides you through the unified API, ensuring your UI components adhere to Apple's design guidelines while remaining highly extensible.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/szpakkamil/searchbar

Use Cases

This skill is essential when:

• Implementing search functionality that needs to feel native on iOS/visionOS while maintaining parity on macOS.
• Styling search bars with specific aesthetic requirements like glass-morphism, capsule shapes, or custom iconography.
• Managing advanced data-driven search features such as search tokens (filters) and dynamic suggestion lists.
• Troubleshooting platform-specific layout issues where the behavior of UISearchBar differs from native SwiftUI views.
• Managing search bar focus states or handling programmatic clear/cancel events.

Example Prompts

1. "How can I implement a glass-styled search bar in my visionOS app and add persistent filter tokens?"
2. "I am having trouble with the .searchBarSuggestions modifier on macOS. Can you provide a standard implementation for dynamic search filtering?"
3. "What is the best way to handle focus state in a cross-platform SearchBar to ensure it dismisses correctly on iPhone but stays active on macOS?"

Tips & Limitations

• Version Requirements: Always be mindful that while basic SearchBar components are available on iOS 14+, advanced features like tokens and suggestions require at least iOS 16.0 or visionOS 1.0.
• Platform Parity: While the library abstracts many differences, use #if os(...) blocks when you need to apply deep platform-specific logic that the unified API cannot satisfy.
• Localization: Remember that SearchBar localizes itself. Do not hardcode strings for placeholder text if you want your app to support system-level multi-language setups; use standard resource strings.
• Focus Management: Leverage the .searchBarIsFocused modifier to avoid manual FocusState management, as it is the most reliable way to maintain synchronization between your state and the component.