Custom back button for NavigationView's navigation bar in SwiftUI

Question

I want to add a custom navigation button that will look somewhat like this:

Now, I\'ve written a custom BackButton view for this. When applying

Answer 1

I expect you want to use custom back button in all navigable screens, so I wrote custom wrapper based on @Ashish answer.

struct NavigationItemContainer<Content>: View where Content: View {
    private let content: () -> Content
    @Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode

    private var btnBack : some View { Button(action: {
        self.presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
    }) {
        HStack {
            Image("back_icon") // set image here
                .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
                .foregroundColor(.black)
            Text("Go back")
        }
        }
    }

    var body: some View {
        content()
            .navigationBarBackButtonHidden(true)
            .navigationBarItems(leading: btnBack)
    }

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

Wrap screen content in NavigationItemContainer:

Usage:

struct CreateAccountScreenView: View {
    var body: some View {
        NavigationItemContainer {
            VStack(spacing: 21) {
                AppLogoView()
                //...
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

I found this: https://ryanashcraft.me/swiftui-programmatic-navigation/

It does work, and it may lay the foundation for a state machine to control what is showing, but it is not a simple as it was before.

import Combine
import SwiftUI

struct DetailView: View {
    var onDismiss: () -> Void

    var body: some View {
        Button(
            "Here are details. Tap to go back.",
            action: self.onDismiss
        )
    }
}

struct RootView: View {
    var link: NavigationDestinationLink<DetailView>
    var publisher: AnyPublisher<Void, Never>

    init() {
        let publisher = PassthroughSubject<Void, Never>()
        self.link = NavigationDestinationLink(
            DetailView(onDismiss: { publisher.send() }),
            isDetail: false
        )
        self.publisher = publisher.eraseToAnyPublisher()
    }

    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Button("I am root. Tap for more details.", action: {
                self.link.presented?.value = true
            })
        }
            .onReceive(publisher, perform: { _ in
                self.link.presented?.value = false
            })
    }
}

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            RootView()
        }
    }
}

If you want to hide the button then you can replace the DetailView with this:

struct LocalDetailView: View {
    var onDismiss: () -> Void

    var body: some View {
        Button(
            "Here are details. Tap to go back.",
            action: self.onDismiss
        )
            .navigationBarItems(leading: Text(""))
    }
}

Answer 3

SwiftUI 1.0

It looks like you can now combine the navigationBarBackButtonHidden and .navigationBarItems to get the effect you're trying to achieve.

Code

struct Navigation_CustomBackButton_Detail: View {
    @Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode
    
    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            Color("Theme3BackgroundColor")
            VStack(spacing: 25) {
                Image(systemName: "globe").font(.largeTitle)
                Text("NavigationView").font(.largeTitle)
                Text("Custom Back Button").foregroundColor(.gray)
                HStack {
                    Image("NavBarBackButtonHidden")
                    Image(systemName: "plus")
                    Image("NavBarItems")
                }
                Text("Hide the system back button and then use the navigation bar items modifier to add your own.")
                    .frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
                    .padding()
                    .background(Color("Theme3ForegroundColor"))
                    .foregroundColor(Color("Theme3BackgroundColor"))
                
                Spacer()
            }
            .font(.title)
            .padding(.top, 50)
        }
        .navigationBarTitle(Text("Detail View"), displayMode: .inline)
        .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom)
        // Hide the system back button
        .navigationBarBackButtonHidden(true)
        // Add your custom back button here
        .navigationBarItems(leading:
            Button(action: {
                self.presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
            }) {
                HStack {
                    Image(systemName: "arrow.left.circle")
                    Text("Go Back")
                }
        })
    }
}

Example

Here is what it looks like (excerpt from the "SwiftUI Views" book):

Answer 4

Really simple method. Only two lines code

Answer 5

This solution works for iPhone. However, for iPad it won't work because of the splitView.

import SwiftUI

struct NavigationBackButton: View {
  var title: Text?
  @Environment(\.presentationMode) private var presentationMode: Binding<PresentationMode>

  var body: some View {
    ZStack {
      VStack {
        ZStack {
          HStack {
            Button(action: {
              self.presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
            }) {
              Image(systemName: "chevron.left")
                .font(.title)
                .frame(width: 44, height: 44)
              title
            }
            Spacer()
          }
        }
        Spacer()
      }
    }
    .zIndex(1)
    .navigationBarTitle("")
    .navigationBarHidden(true)
  }
}

struct NavigationBackButton_Previews: PreviewProvider {
  static var previews: some View {
    NavigationBackButton()
  }
}

Answer 6

Swiping is not disabled this way.

Works for me. XCode 11.3.1

Put this in your root View

init() {
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isUserInteractionEnabled = false
    UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .clear
    UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
    UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .clear
}

And this in your child View

@Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode: Binding<PresentationMode>

Button(action: {self.presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()}) {
    Image(systemName: "gobackward")
}