SwiftUI: the ForEach view
The ForEach
view in SwiftUI is very useful to iterate over an array, or a range, and generate views that we can use.
For example, here we create 3 Text
views that print the numbers from 0 to 2:
ForEach(0..<3) {
Text("\($0)")
}
$0 means the first argument passed to the closure, which in this case it’s (in order) the number 0, 1, and 2.
In this example I embed them in a VStack
otherwise they would overlap:
VStack {
ForEach(0..<3) {
Text("\($0)")
}.padding()
}
Notice how I used the
padding()
modifier to add some spacing
A common way to use ForEach
is inside a List
view:
List {
ForEach(0..<3) {
Text("\($0)")
}
}
This is such a common thing to do that we can actually omit ForEach
and iterate directly from List
:
List(0..<3) {
Text("\($0)")
}
Those 2 examples used a range 0..<3
. We can iterate over an array too:
let fruits = ["Apple", "Pear", "Orange"]
//...
List {
ForEach(fruits, id: \.self) {
Text("\($0)")
}
}
Notice how in this case we have another parameter: id
.
This is to uniquely identify the item in the array.
Using \.self
for id
works for built-in types, in case you are iterating a custom struct you’ll need that to conform to the Identifiable
protocol or provide a unique parameter.
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