I have sign up page with a VStack embedded in a ScrollView that's embedded in a VStack. In the innermost VStack I have a series of TextFields with a custom TextFieldStyle.
The UI of the signup page looks like this:
VStack {
ScrollView {
VStack(spacing: 24) {
TextField(text: $firstNameText) {
Text(.firstNameLabel)
}
.textFieldStyle(.customTextfieldStyle())
TextField(text: $lastNameText) {
Text(.lastNameLabel)
}
.textFieldStyle(.customTextfieldStyle())
}
}
Spacer()
Button(action: submit) {
Text(.nextButtonTitle)
}
}
Next, the customTextfieldStyle looks like this:
VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
configuration
.font(.bodyBook14)
.padding(.bottom, 16)
Rectangle()
.fill(errors.isEmpty ? Color.primary : .errorRed)
.frame(height: 1)
ForEach(errors) { error in
Text(error.title)
.font(.bodyBook14)
.foregroundColor(.errorRed)
.padding(.top, 8)
}
}
In my custom textfield style I added a rectangle and an error text. The problem I'm having is with this custom style, the rectangle and error messages below the textfield is being covered on focus. the keyboard avoidance doesn't offset enough of the scrollview to display them to the user. The keyboard properly offsets the view just enough to show only the textfield but not the rectangle and error messages. Is it possible to make the keyboard recognize the entire custom textfield style should shift up?
Screenshot below shows how error text is all covered by the keyboard / button.
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Automatic keyboard avoidance seems to work fine if it's a regular TextField (i.e. one that doesn't expand on an axis), whether or not it is contained in a ScrollView
Keyboard avoidance also seems to work with the new TextField(_:text:axis) introduced in iOS 16 if it's simply placed in a VStack without being wrapped in a ScrollView. It will even continue to avoid the keyboard correctly as the height expands with more text.
But I can't seem to get keyboard avoidance to work with TextField(_:text:axis) if it is placed inside a ScrollView
I can employ the hacky method of using a ScrollViewReader combined with DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .milliseconds(400)) to wrap the proxy.scrollTo() when the TextField is focused. This sort of works when you first focus the field, but I can't seem to get the ScrollView to continue to adjust its position as the TextField expands.
Here is an example:
struct KeyboardAvoidingView: View {
#State var text = ""
var body: some View {
ScrollViewReader { proxy in
ScrollView {
VStack {
Color.red
.frame(height: 400)
Color.blue
.frame(height: 400)
TextField("Name", text: $text, axis: .vertical)
.padding(.vertical)
.onTapGesture {
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .milliseconds(400)) {
withAnimation(.default) {
proxy.scrollTo(0)
}
}
}
.onChange(of: text) { newValue in
proxy.scrollTo(0) // This doesn't seem to do anything
}
Spacer()
.frame(height: 0)
.id(0)
}
}
}
}
}
I guess I'm wondering whether this is expected behavior, or a bug. And regardless if it's one or the other, I'm wondering if I can have an auto-expanding text field inside a scroll view that I can make avoid the keyboard even as the height of the field expands?
UPDATE: It turns out, the issue was with placing the TextField inside a VStack instead of a LazyVStack. I assume ScrollView doesn't know what to do with just a regular VStack in certain situations. If I replace the VStack with a LazyVStack in my example, everything works as expected!
I answered the question with the update posted above. The issue was with using VStack instead of LazyVStack
This is a long time known bug in the TextField component, but you may achieve the desired behavior by using an anchor: .bottom in the proxy.scrollTo call of your onChange.
it'll look like this:
// ...
TextField("Name", text: $text, axis: .vertical)
.padding(.vertical)
.onTapGesture {
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .milliseconds(400)) {
withAnimation(.default) {
proxy.scrollTo(0)
}
}
}
.onChange(of: text) { newValue in
// This will always scroll to the bottom of the text editor,
// just make sure to pass the right value in the first parameter
// that will identify your TextEditor
proxy.scrollTo(MyTextEditorId, anchor: .bottom)
}
// ...
You may need some additional work to handle the editing of upper parts of the text editor when it's taller than your screen
I am still a beginner in swiftUI.
Adding code and screenshot which will have explain my problem better. In the below screenshot, how can I align 'E' of first line with 'T' of 2nd line. I want both 'Text' elements to have same leading space i.e. both should start from the same position from left.
I have seen cases where people are using just one Text element and '\n' to move text to the next line and that aligns the text, but in my case I will be having more elements such as TextField and some more Text elements below these 2 texts hence I can't use the '\n' idea.
Code:
struct TestData: View {
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Image("backgroundImage").resizable().edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all).scaledToFill()
VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) {
Text("Enter your Data")
.font(.largeTitle).bold()
.frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width-50, height: 33.0)
Text("This is a very very long text to wrap on the next line. This text is of 2 lines.")
.font(.callout)
.frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width-50, height: 80.0)
.foregroundColor(.gray)
.lineLimit(nil)
HStack {
// Contains image and textfield. Data will be entered in textfield.
}
// Move Text and Button elements.
}.offset(x: -10, y: -100)
}
}
}
struct TestData_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
TestData()
}
}
Screenshot:
In general, don't set fixed frames; SwiftUI tends to work better when you let the layout engine do its thing. Using maxWidth/maxHeight and minWidth/minHeight can be useful for giving clues to the layout engine about what you want.
Similarly with offset - This moves things around but doesn't change their layout bounding box, so you can end up with overlapping elements (which is fine if that is what you want).
For your layout, you can simply remove the frame and offset and use some padding to shift everything in from the leading edge:
VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) {
Text("Enter your Data").font(.largeTitle)
.bold()
Text("This is a very very long text to wrap on the next line. This text is of 2 lines.").font(.callout)
.foregroundColor(.gray)
.lineLimit(nil)
HStack {
// Contains image and textfield. Data will be entered in textfield.
}
}.padding(.leading,50)
So my goal is to disable touch events for everything on screen and I don't want to use .disable on every view or to use Color.black.opacity(0.00001) because of the code smell. I want it to be a block that isn't visible for the user like if I would overlay Color.clear over the whole view. And I want it to behave like if I were to use Color.black.opacity(0.1) with it disabling touch events on every view underneath.
If I for example use a ZStack with:
Color.black.opacity(0.2) every view underneath will no longer register touch events. (I want this, but it should be transparent)
Color.black.opacity(0) every view underneath will register touch events.
Color.black.opacity(0).contentShape(Rectangle()), some events will register, some won't, for example buttons won't work though scrolling in a ScrollView, or using a toggle will still work.
Here is some example code
struct ContentView: View {
#State var numberOfRows: Int = 10
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Color.white
ScrollView {
VStack {
ForEach(0..<numberOfRows, id: \.self) { (call: Int) in
Text(String(call))
.frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
}
}
}
Button(action: {
numberOfRows += 1
}) {
Color.blue
.frame(width: 300, height: 300)
}
Color.black.opacity(0) // <- change this to 0.x to disable all touch
.contentShape(Rectangle()) // <- Remove this line to make blue button work (opacity needs to be 0)
}
}
}
Why is scrollview still receiving touch events and why is buttons not?
Is there a way to make my touch events for every view underneath, disabled?
Use instead (tested with Xcode 13.4 / iOS 15.5)
Color.clear
// .ignoresSafeArea(.all) // << if need all screen space
.contentShape(Rectangle())
.highPriorityGesture(DragGesture(minimumDistance: 0))
I am able to add Title using .navigationBarTitle(Text((msgDetails.name))) But i wanted to add subtitle under the title in the navigationbar. Looks like title will not accept the View and it accepts only Text. I tried \n in the title but it is not working. IS there any way i can add the subtitle in navigation bar. I used leading and trailing to add left and right button in the navigation bar. I wanted to show title and subtitle along with this left and right button
Navigation Bar
If you look in SwiftUI documentation you'll see only a few overloads of navigationBarTitle function. All of them requires special parameters, like Text or StringProtocol. So you can't just put some View into navigation bar.
I can propose one strange, but working version. It's about using .navigationBarItems(leading:... - it requires some view, which you can customize (within reason). Here is simple example:
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
Text("Main view")
.navigationBarItems(leading:
HStack {
Button(action: {}) {
Image(systemName: "return")
}
VStack {
Text("Title")
.bold()
.font(.system(size: 30))
Text("Subtitle")
.italic()
.font(.system(size: 15))
}
.padding(.horizontal, 100) // mb it's better to use GeometryReader for centering
})
}
}
}
and you'll achieve something like this:
I'm creating an iOS app using Apple's SwiftUI framework. As I need to detect if the user taps on a specific area of the screen, I obviously use a button.
The problem is that the area contains an Image and a Text, and as the button automatically gives its content the blue color, the image is also colored, so instead of being an Image it's just a blue rounded rectangle.
It is said that an image is worth a thousand words, and as I'm not good at explaining, here you have a graphic demonstration of what happens:
Outside the button (without button styling)
Inside the button (with button styling)
This happens because the button is adding .foregroundColor(.blue) to the image.
How can I avoid/disable the button adding style to its components?
EDIT: This is my button code:
ContentView.swift:
Button(action: {/* other code */}) {
PackageManagerRow(packageManager: packageManagersData[0])
}
PackageManagerRow.swift:
struct PackageManagerRow : View {
var packageManager : PackageManager
var body: some View {
VStack {
HStack {
Image(packageManager.imageName)
.resizable()
.frame(width: 42.0, height: 42.0)
Text(verbatim: packageManager.name)
Spacer()
Image(systemName: "checkmark")
.foregroundColor(.blue)
.opacity(0)
}.padding(.bottom, 0)
Divider()
.padding(.top, -3)
}
}
}
I think this is from the rendering mode for the image you are using.
Where you have Image("Cydia logo") (or whatever).
You should be setting the rendering mode like...
Image("Cydia Logo").renderingMode(.original)
You can also add a PlainButtonStyle() to your button to avoid iOS style behaviors.
Something like that with your example :
Button(action: {/* other code */}) {
PackageManagerRow(packageManager: packageManagersData[0])
}.buttonStyle(PlainButtonStyle())
I hope it will help you!
Another option is to not use a Button wrapper, but instead use tapAction directly on the Image to trigger your action when the image is pressed
HStack {
Button(action: {
print("Tapped")
}, label: {
Image("Logo").renderingMode(.original) // Add Rendering Mode
})
Text("Cydia")
}
A button with an icon! How original 😀.
If you are dealing with SF symbols then the following will do fine:
Button(action: addItem) {
Text(Image(systemName: "plus").renderingMode(.original))
+
Text("This is Plus")
}
.font(.system(size: 42))
The limitation of the option above is you don't have control over Image's size. So for custom images the following is more appropriate:
Button(action: addItem) {
Label(
title: { Text("Label").font(.system(size: 40)) }, // Any font you like
icon: { Image(systemName: "rectangle.and.pencil.and.ellipsis") // Both custom and system images, i.e. `Image("Cydia logo")`
.renderingMode(.original)
.resizable()
.aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
.frame(width: 42, height: 42) // Any size you like
.padding() // Any padding you need
} // and etc.
)
}
Apply the style .plain to your button to avoid overlay color.
// Before
Button(...)
// After
Button(...)
.buttonStyle(.plain) // Remove the overlay color (blue) for images inside Button
.plain button style, that doesn’t style or decorate its content while idle, but may apply a visual effect to indicate the pressed, focused, or enabled state of the button.
Another solution is to custom the style with ButtonStyle
like: struct MyButtonStyle:ButtonStyle { }
You have to render the original image by adding .renderingMode(.original) right after your image declaration.
Image("your_image_name")
.renderingMode(.original)