uiscrollview - Is there any way to make a paged ScrollView in SwiftUI?

Question

I've been looking through the docs with each beta but haven't seen a way to make a traditional paged ScrollView. I'm not familiar with AppKit so I am wondering if this doesn't exist in SwiftUI because it's primarily a UIKit construct. Anyway, does anyone have an example of this, or can anyone tell me it's definitely impossible so I can stop looking and roll my own?

Answer 1

As of Beta 3 there is no native SwiftUI API for paging. I've filed feedback and recommend you do the same. They changed the ScrollView API from Beta 2 to Beta 3 and I wouldn't be surprised to see a further update.

It is possible to wrap a UIScrollView in order to provide this functionality now. Unfortunately, you must wrap the UIScrollView in a UIViewController, which is further wrapped in UIViewControllerRepresentable in order to support SwiftUI content.

Gist here

class UIScrollViewViewController: UIViewController {

    lazy var scrollView: UIScrollView = {
        let v = UIScrollView()
        v.isPagingEnabled = true
        return v
    }()

    var hostingController: UIHostingController<AnyView> = UIHostingController(rootView: AnyView(EmptyView()))

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.view.addSubview(self.scrollView)
        self.pinEdges(of: self.scrollView, to: self.view)

        self.hostingController.willMove(toParent: self)
        self.scrollView.addSubview(self.hostingController.view)
        self.pinEdges(of: self.hostingController.view, to: self.scrollView)
        self.hostingController.didMove(toParent: self)

    }

    func pinEdges(of viewA: UIView, to viewB: UIView) {
        viewA.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        viewB.addConstraints([
            viewA.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.leadingAnchor),
            viewA.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.trailingAnchor),
            viewA.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.topAnchor),
            viewA.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: viewB.bottomAnchor),
        ])
    }

}

struct UIScrollViewWrapper<Content: View>: UIViewControllerRepresentable {

    var content: () -> Content

    init(@ViewBuilder content: @escaping () -> Content) {
        self.content = content
    }

    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> UIScrollViewViewController {
        let vc = UIScrollViewViewController()
        vc.hostingController.rootView = AnyView(self.content())
        return vc
    }

    func updateUIViewController(_ viewController: UIScrollViewViewController, context: Context) {
        viewController.hostingController.rootView = AnyView(self.content())
    }
}

And then to use it:

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { proxy in
            UIScrollViewWrapper {
                VStack {
                    ForEach(0..<1000) { _ in
                        Text("Hello world")
                    }
                }
                .frame(width: proxy.size.width) // This ensures the content uses the available width, otherwise it will be pinned to the left
            }
        }
    }