Is there a substitute for onAppear?

February 11, 2023

I am a novice at SwiftUI and I am playing around with Text-To-Speech functions. I have gotten it to work, but I now want the app to automatically speak a string when opened.

I have set it up like so:

import SwiftUI
import AVFoundation

struct ContentView: View {

    let synth = AVSpeechSynthesizer()    
    let myUtterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: "Welcome, User!")
    
    var body: some View {
        onAppear(perform: {
            synth.speak(myUtterance)
        })

        HStack {
            Image(systemName: "map")
                .imageScale(.large)
                .foregroundColor(.teal)
            Text("Welcome to CampusAI!")
                .font(.title3)
            Image(systemName: "map")
                .imageScale(.large)
                .foregroundColor(.teal)
        }   
    }
}

However, the program returns an ‘unknown error’ and will not start preview. This issue disappears – and the app will run – when i delete the onAppear part. Is there any way to fix this error and get my app running?

>Solution :

onAppear is ViewModifier it has to be attached to a view with dot notation.

struct ContentView: View {

    let synth = AVSpeechSynthesizer()    
    let myUtterance = AVSpeechUtterance(string: "Welcome, User!")
    
    var body: some View {


        HStack {
            Image(systemName: "map")
                .imageScale(.large)
                .foregroundColor(.teal)
            Text("Welcome to CampusAI!")
                .font(.title3)
            Image(systemName: "map")
                .imageScale(.large)
                .foregroundColor(.teal)
        }.onAppear(perform: { // <<--- HERE
            synth.speak(myUtterance)
        })   
    }
}