How to set a background image for whole view (List) not rows

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florian1744 OP

Created Apr ’20

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My listView is simple

struct ListView: View {
     var body: some View {
          NavigationView {
               List(myList) { element in 
                    NavigationLink(destination: NextView()) {
                         Text(element.name)
                   }     
               }
          }    
     }
}

Thought I could set a background Image for the whole View with

.background(Image("ImageName"))

modifier. But the lists background is still white.

I don't want to set an image for each row only once for the whole view.

Can anyone help?

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Answer 1

JakeShort OP

Jun ’20

I was able to get this to work by altering the UITableView and UITableViewCell themselves.

Here is the code:

Code Block Swiftstruct ListView: View {
  var body: some View {
    NavigationView {
      List {
        Text("Hello!")
      }
      .onAppear() {
        UITableViewCell.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
         
        let imageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "Dogs.jpeg"))
        imageView.contentMode = .top
        UITableView.appearance().backgroundView = imageView
      }
    }
  }
}

The imageView.contentMode can be changed to a variety of other choices that best fit your needs, see here. .top will place the image at the top of the list, without stretching it.

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Answer 2

Heestand OP

Jun ’20

Try setting the List row backgrounds to a clear color:

Code Block .listRowBackground(Color.clear)

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