How to render a UINavigationController instance exposed via NativeModules from Swift?

[mohsinulhaq]

I have a setup where I have bottom navigator created via createBottomTabNavigator, and each tab rendering a native stack navigator created via createNativeStackNavigator. Now I'm trying to merge another app in written in Swift UIkit.
That app uses UITabBarController to render tabs created via UINavigationController.
Is it possible, either at tab level or screen level to get those screens to render in React Native?

I tried exposing the UINavigationController stack via the NativeModules interface, but I'm not sure how to plug that into the JS bottom navigator.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mohsinulhaq]

@WoLewicki sorry for tagging you, but is there something that can be done?

[WoLewicki]

I think you should do something similar to what is done in react-native-screens with ScreenStack and Screen components. It requires handling of the navigation lifecycle etc., but for sure it is possible. Look at how the native-stack navigator is created here: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/blob/master/src/native-stack/navigators/createNativeStackNavigator.tsx#L80 and try to do something similar for your native component.

[mohsinulhaq]

@WoLewicki I was able to render a UIViewController inside RNSStack. But the next issue I faced was this:
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