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Pickers in forms

Paul Hudson @twostraws September 23rd 2019

Updated for Xcode 12.0

SwiftUI’s picker views take on special behavior when inside forms, automatically adapting based on the platform you’re using them with. On iOS this behavior is particularly impressive, because the picker can be collapsed down to a single list row that navigates into a new list of possible options – it’s a really natural way of working with many options.

For example, this creates a form with a picker using an array for its items:

struct ContentView: View {
    var strengths = ["Mild", "Medium", "Mature"]

    @State private var selectedStrength = 0

    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            Form {
                Section {
                    Picker(selection: $selectedStrength, label: Text("Strength")) {
                        ForEach(0 ..< strengths.count) {
                            Text(self.strengths[$0])

                        }
                    }
                }
            }.navigationBarTitle("Select your cheese")

        }
    }
}

On iOS, that will appear as a single list row that you can tap to bring in a new screen showing all possible options – Mild, Medium, and Mature. Your current selection will have a checkmark next to it, and when you select a new option it will return to the previous screen with that now showing.

Tip: Because pickers in forms have this navigation behavior, it’s important you wrap them in a NavigationView on iOS otherwise you’ll find that tapping them doesn’t work.

If you want to disable this behavior, you can force the picker to adopts its regular style by using the .pickerStyle(WheelPickerStyle()) modifier, like this:

Picker(selection: $selectedStrength, label: Text("Strength")) {
    ForEach(0 ..< strengths.count) {
        Text(self.strengths[$0])

    }
}
    .pickerStyle(WheelPickerStyle())

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