Flavio Copes

SwiftUI: the List view

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Published Sep 22 2021

The List view is one of the most useful views you’ll use in SwiftUI.

List {
            
}

Inside it, you can put a series of views, like Text for example:

See? List recognizes the Text child view, and puts it inside a row.

You can put more than one, and each child of List will be put on its own row:

Inside a list, you can group items using the Section view, like this:

The listStyle() modifier of List can let you customize the List appearance, using

  • InsetGroupedListStyle
  • InsetListStyle
  • SidebarListStyle
  • GroupedListStyle
  • PlainListStyle

For example here’s InsetGroupedListStyle:

List {
		//...
}.listStyle(InsetGroupedListStyle())

And here’s GroupedListStyle:

List {
		//...
}.listStyle(GroupedListStyle())

Here’s SidebarListStyle: