Remove circular button background in SwiftUI (WatchKit) - ios

Question

I'm struggling to remove the background of a custom circular Button element in SwiftUI which is defined as follows:
struct NavButton: View {
var body: some View {
Button(action: {})
VStack {
Text("Button")
}
.padding(40)
.background(Color.red)
.font(.title)
.mask(Circle())
}
}
}
This results in a rectangular light gray background around the button, where I want it to not be shown:
I tried to append a "background" modifier to the button, and it demonstrates very strange behavior: if it's set to "Color.clear", there is no effect. But if I set it to "Color.green" it does change the background as expected.
Example of setting the "Background" modifier to "Color.green":
struct NavButton: View {
var body: some View {
Button(action: {})
VStack {
Text("Button")
}
.padding(40)
.background(Color.red)
.font(.title)
.mask(Circle())
}
.background(Color.green) // has no effect if set to "Color.clear"
}
}
I wonder if I'm missing something here?
PS: I'm using Xcode 11.1 (11A1027)

Answer 1

Try adding .buttonStyle(PlainButtonStyle()) on the button itself.
You would have something like this:
Button(action: {}){
VStack{
Text("Button")
}
.padding(40)
.background(Color.red)
.font(.headline)
.mask(Circle())
}
.buttonStyle(PlainButtonStyle())

Answer 2

Declare your own ButtonStyle:
struct RedRoundButton: ButtonStyle {
func makeBody(configuration: Configuration) -> some View {
configuration.label
.padding(40)
.font(.title)
.background( Circle()
.fill(Color.red))
}
}
and then use it like this:
Button("Button") {}
.buttonStyle(RedRoundButton())

Answer 3

Try this:
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
Button(action: {}) {
Text("Button")
.frame(width: 80, height: 80)
}
.background(Color.red)
.cornerRadius(40)
.frame(width: 80, height: 80)
}
}

Answer 4

Try this.
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Button(action: {}){
Text("button")
.font(.system(size: 50))
.foregroundColor(.black)
.bold()
}
.padding(30)
.background(Color.yellow)
.font(.headline)
.mask(Circle())
.buttonStyle(PlainButtonStyle())
} // end Vstack
}// end body
}