SwiftUI List color background

Question

I can't change background color of a view if i List static items. this my code:

NavigationView {
        ZStack {
            Color("AppBackgroundColor").edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
            List {
                Section(header: Text("Now in theaters")) {
                    ScrollMovies(type: .currentMoviesInTheater)
                }
                Section(header: Text("Popular movies")) {
                    ScrollMovies(type: .popularMovies)
                }
            }.listStyle(.grouped)
        }
    }

Answer 1

You can provide a modifier for the items in the list

NavigationView {
        ZStack {
            Color("AppBackgroundColor").edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
            List {
                Section(header: Text("Now in theaters")) {
                    ScrollMovies(type: .currentMoviesInTheater)
                    .listRowBackground(Color.blue) // << Here
                }
                Section(header: Text("Popular movies")) {
                    ScrollMovies(type: .popularMovies)
                    .listRowBackground(Color.green)  // << And here
                }
            }.listStyle(.grouped)
        }
    }

Answer 2

since, you are asking for changing the background color of view,

you can use .colorMultiply() for that.

Code:

var body: some View {
        VStack {
            ZStack {
                List {
                    Section(header: Text("Now in theaters")) {
                        Text("Row1")
                    }
                    Section(header: Text("Popular movies")) {
                        Text("Row2")
                    }

                    /*Section(header: Text("Now in theaters")) {
                        ScrollMovies(type: .currentMoviesInTheater)
                    }
                    Section(header: Text("Popular movies")) {
                        ScrollMovies(type: .popularMovies)
                    } */
                }.listStyle(.grouped)
            }.colorMultiply(Color.yellow)
        }
}

Output:

Answer 3

@State var users: [String] = ["User 1",
                              "User 2",
                              "User 3",
                              "User 4"]

init(){
    UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor = .red
    UITableViewCell.appearance().backgroundColor = .red
    UITableView.appearance().tableFooterView = UIView()
}

var body: some View {
    List(users, id: \.self){ user in
        Text(user)
    }
    .background(Color.red)
}

PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())

Answer 4

All SwiftUI's Lists are backed by a UITableViewin iOS. so you need to change the background color of the tableView. But since Color and UIColor values are slightly different, you can get rid of the UIColor.

struct ContentView: View {

    init(){
        UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
    }

    var body: some View {
        Form {
            Section(header: Text("First Section")) {
                Text("First cell")
            }
            Section(header: Text("Second Section")) {
                Text("First cell")
            }
        }
        .background(Color.yellow)
    }
}

Now you can use Any background (including all Colors) you want

Note that those top and bottom white areas are the safe areas and you can use the .edgesIgnoringSafeArea() modifier to get rid of them.

Also note that List with the .listStyle(GroupedListStyle()) modifier can be replaced by a simple Form. But keep in mind that SwiftUI controls behave differently depending in their enclosing view.

Answer 5

Easiest way to do this for now is just to use UIAppearance proxy. SwiftUI is young so there's a couple of features not fully implemented correctly by Apple yet.

UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor = .red